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Short-needle syndrome occurs commonly in southern Finland. The disease is characterized by abnormal length distribution of the needles in shoots. In most cases, affected shoots have needles of normal length as well as very short needles. The short needles are those injured during the needle elongation period; the tissues formed abnormal sclerenchymatic structures and wound periderm. One possible cause could be hemipterous insects feeding on growing needles. Salivary sheaths of such insects were often present in both deformed needle bases and undeformed mature tissues.
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Kurkela,
Finnish Forest Research Institute, P.O. Box 18, FIN-01301 Vantaa, Finland
E-mail:
timo.kurkela@metla.fi
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Nuorteva,
Finnish Forest Research Institute, P.O. Box 18, FIN-01301 Vantaa, Finland
E-mail:
hn@nn.fi