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A Pine in Distress: How Infection by Different Pathogenic Fungi Affect Lodgepole Pine Chemical Defenses by Zaman, Rashaduz, Antonioli, Federico, Shah, Ateeq, Ullah, Aziz, May, Courtney, Klutsch, Jennifer G., Erbilgin, Nadir

“…In North America, lodgepole pine is frequently subjected to attacks by various biotic agents that compromise its ability to defend against subsequent attacks…”
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Drought stress leads to systemic induced susceptibility to a nectrotrophic fungus associated with mountain pine beetle in Pinus banksiana seedlings by Klutsch, Jennifer G, Shamoun, Simon Francis, Erbilgin, Nadir

“…Conifers have complex defense responses to initial attacks by insects and pathogens that can have cascading effects on success of subsequent colonizers…”
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Fungal Volatiles Can Act as Carbon Sources and Semiochemicals to Mediate Interspecific Interactions Among Bark Beetle-Associated Fungal Symbionts by Cale, Jonathan A, Collignon, R Maxwell, Klutsch, Jennifer G, Kanekar, Sanat S, Hussain, Altaf, Erbilgin, Nadir

“…Mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) has killed millions of hectares of pine forests in western North America. Beetle success is dependent upon a…”
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Integrating genomic information and productivity and climate-adaptability traits into a regional white spruce breeding program by Cappa, Eduardo P, Klutsch, Jennifer G, Sebastian-Azcona, Jaime, Ratcliffe, Blaise, Wei, Xiaojing, Da Ros, Letitia, Liu, Yang, Chen, Charles, Benowicz, Andy, Sadoway, Shane, Mansfield, Shawn D, Erbilgin, Nadir, Thomas, Barb R, El-Kassaby, Yousry A

“…Tree improvement programs often focus on improving productivity-related traits; however, under present climate change scenarios, climate change-related…”
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The Legacy Effect of Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks on the Chemical and Anatomical Defences of Surviving Lodgepole Pine Trees by Baker, Gigi, Zhao, Shiyang, Klutsch, Jennifer G, Ishangulyyeva, Guncha, Erbilgin, Nadir

“…The recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks have caused widespread mortality among lodgepole pine trees in western North America, resulting in a reduced…”
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Multiple-trait analyses improved the accuracy of genomic prediction and the power of genome-wide association of productivity and climate change-adaptive traits in lodgepole pine by Cappa, Eduardo P, Chen, Charles, Klutsch, Jennifer G, Sebastian-Azcona, Jaime, Ratcliffe, Blaise, Wei, Xiaojing, Da Ros, Letitia, Ullah, Aziz, Liu, Yang, Benowicz, Andy, Sadoway, Shane, Mansfield, Shawn D, Erbilgin, Nadir, Thomas, Barb R, El-Kassaby, Yousry A

“…Abstract Background Genomic prediction (GP) and genome-wide association (GWA) analyses are currently being employed to accelerate breeding cycles and to…”
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Nitrogen and Ergosterol Concentrations Varied in Live Jack Pine Phloem Following Inoculations With Fungal Associates of Mountain Pine Beetle by Guevara-Rozo, Sydne, Hussain, Altaf, Cale, Jonathan A., Klutsch, Jennifer G., Rajabzadeh, Rahmatollah, Erbilgin, Nadir

“…Bark beetles form symbiotic associations with multiple species of fungi that supplement their metabolic needs. However, the relative contributions of each…”
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Production of complementary defense metabolites reflects a co‐evolutionary arms race between a host plant and a mutualistic bark beetle‐fungal complex by Ullah, Aziz, Klutsch, Jennifer G., Erbilgin, Nadir

“…Intra‐specific variation in conifers has been extensively studied with respect to defense against herbivores and pathogens. While studies have shown the…”
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Complementary roles of two classes of defense chemicals in white spruce against spruce budworm by Ullah, Aziz, Klutsch, Jennifer G., Erbilgin, Nadir

“…Main conclusion Monoterpenes and phenolics play distinct roles in defending white spruce trees from insect defoliators. Monoterpenes contribute to the toxicity…”
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Dwarf mistletoe infection in jack pine alters growth-defense relationships by Klutsch, Jennifer G, Erbilgin, Nadir

“…Trees utilize a combination of chemical and anatomical defenses against a myriad of attacking organisms. However, persistent pathogen infection that alters…”
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Post-fire regeneration dynamics in whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forests in Wind River and Absaroka Mountains, Wyoming, USA by Klutsch, Jennifer G, Goodrich, Betsy A, Jacobi, William R

“…Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) populations are in decline across the species’ range due to historic wildfire exclusion, mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus…”
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Weathering the storm: how lodgepole pine trees survive mountain pine beetle outbreaks by Erbilgin, Nadir, Cale, Jonathan A., Hussain, Altaf, Ishangulyyeva, Guncha, Klutsch, Jennifer G., Najar, Ahmed, Zhao, Shiyang

“…Recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks in western North America killed millions of lodgepole pine trees, leaving few survivors. However, the mechanism…”
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Defence syndromes in lodgepole – whitebark pine ecosystems relate to degree of historical exposure to mountain pine beetles by Raffa, Kenneth F., Mason, Charles J., Bonello, Pierluigi, Cook, Stephen, Erbilgin, Nadir, Keefover‐Ring, Ken, Klutsch, Jennifer G., Villari, Caterina, Townsend, Philip A.

“…Warming climate is increasing the frequency at which a native tree‐killing insect can survive in ecologically fragile high‐elevation stands dominated by…”
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Direction of interaction between mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) and resource-sharing wood-boring beetles depends on plant parasite infection by Klutsch, Jennifer G., Najar, Ahmed, Cale, Jonathan A., Erbilgin, Nadir

“…Plant pathogens can have cascading consequences on insect herbivores, though whether they alter competition among resource-sharing insect herbivores is…”
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Anatomical defences against bark beetles relate to degree of historical exposure between species and are allocated independently of chemical defences within trees by Mason, Charles J., Keefover‐Ring, Ken, Villari, Caterina, Klutsch, Jennifer G., Cook, Stephen, Bonello, Pierluigi, Erbilgin, Nadir, Raffa, Kenneth F., Townsend, Philip A.

“…Conifers possess chemical and anatomical defences against tree‐killing bark beetles that feed in their phloem. Resins accumulating at attack sites can delay…”
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Pest defences under weak selection exert a limited influence on the evolution of height growth and drought avoidance in marginal pine populations by Liu, Yang, Erbilgin, Nadir, Ratcliffe, Blaise, Klutsch, Jennifer G., Wei, Xiaojing, Ullah, Aziz, Cappa, Eduardo Pablo, Chen, Charles, Thomas, Barb R., El-Kassaby, Yousry A.

“…While droughts, intensified by climate change, have been affecting forests worldwide, pest epidemics are a major source of uncertainty for assessing drought…”
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Decoupling of height growth and drought or pest resistance tradeoffs is revealed through multiple common-garden experiments of lodgepole pine by Liu, Yang, Erbilgin, Nadir, Cappa, Eduardo Pablo, Chen, Charles, Ratcliffe, Blaise, Wei, Xiaojing, Klutsch, Jennifer G, Ullah, Aziz, Azcona, Jaime Sebastian, Thomas, Barb R, El-Kassaby, Yousry A

“…The environment could alter growth and resistance tradeoffs in plants by affecting the ratio of resource allocation to various competing traits. Yet, how and…”
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Combined drought and bark beetle attacks deplete non‐structural carbohydrates and promote death of mature pine trees by Erbilgin, Nadir, Zanganeh, Leila, Klutsch, Jennifer G., Chen, Shih‐hsuan, Zhao, Shiyang, Ishangulyyeva, Guncha, Burr, Stephen J., Gaylord, Monica, Hofstetter, Richard, Keefover‐Ring, Ken, Raffa, Kenneth F., Kolb, Thomas

“…How carbohydrate reserves in conifers respond to drought and bark beetle attacks are poorly understood. We investigated changes in carbohydrate reserves and…”
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Pathophysiological responses of pine defensive metabolites largely lack differences between pine species but vary with eliciting ophiostomatoid fungal species by Cale, Jonathan A, Klutsch, Jennifer G, Dykstra, Christien B, Peters, Brosnon, Erbilgin, Nadir

“…Phytopathogenic ophiostomatoid fungi are common associates of bark beetles and contribute to beetle-associated mortality of trees. Mountain pine beetle…”
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Selection of entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) for the biocontrol of Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) in Western Canada by Rosana, Albert Remus R., Pokorny, Stanley, Klutsch, Jennifer G., Ibarra-Romero, Cherry, Sanichar, Randy, Engelhardt, Daniel, van Belkum, Marco J., Erbilgin, Nadir, Bohlmann, Joerg, Carroll, Allan L., Vederas, John C.

“…The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae , has infested over ~16 Mha of pine forests in British Columbia killing >50% of mature lodgepole pine, Pinus…”
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