Resin flow is the primary means of natural defense against southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis Zimm.), the most important insect pest of Pinus spp. in the southern United States. As a result, factors affecting resin flow are of interest to researchers and forest managers. We examined the influence of fertilization, artificial wounding and fungal inoculation on resin flow in 6-and 12-ye...

University House 1, PO Box 1700, STN CSC, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3R4 Phone: 250-721-6236 | Fax: 250-721-7217 | pacificclimate.org In a recent paper in Nature Climate Change, Mikkelson (2013) and colleagues find that municipal water supplies that draw from mountain pine beetle-infested source regions have higher concentrations of both organic carbon and p...

We propose a new strategy to identify and visualize bacterial consortia by conducting replicated culturing of environmental samples coupled with high-throughput sequencing and multidimensional scaling analysis, followed by identification of bacteria-bacteria correlations and interactions. We conducted a proof of concept assay with pine-tree resin-based media in ten replicates, which allowed det...

Lignocellulosic fibers have received much more attention than ever before from the research community all over the world during the past few years because of their enormous advantages. A study on the preparation of new series of polymer composites using Pine Needles as a reinforcing material in Urea Formaldehyde resin has been made. Mechanical properties of intimately mixed particle reinforced ...

MAGEE. T. V., and D. F. ZINKEL. 1986. A rapid method for diterpene resin acid analysis of pine needle oleoresin. Can. J. For. Res. 16: 1107-1109. A method for diterpene resin acid analysis has been developed for pine oleoresin samples at the submilligram level. The method utilizes the removal of acidic components by a micro-DEAE-Sephadex ion-exchange column and analysis of the recovered resin a...

Pine resin is one of the demanded products to have proceeded into gondorukem. Gondorukem from Indonesia has a competitive advantage compared other countries because it stickier, heat resistant, and distinctive aroma so its exports are attractive countries. Ensuring quality quantity gondorukem requires smooth pine supply chain. This study aims determine risk events agents in chain that inhibit p...

The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) is the most serious pest of pines (Pinus) in western North America. Host pines protect themselves from attack by producing a complex mixture of terpenes in their resin. We sampled lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta variety latifolia) phloem resin at four widely separated locations in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, both just befo...

Mountain pine beetle (MPB, Dendroctonus ponderosae) is a significant mortality agent of Pinus, and climate-driven range expansion is occurring. Pinus defenses in recently invaded areas, including high elevations, are predicted to be lower than in areas with longer term MPB presence. MPB was recently observed in high-elevation forests of the Great Basin (GB) region, North America. Defense and su...

This study used thermal power plant fly ash (FA) and bottom (BA) as fill materials investigated the properties of composites made cement pine tree resin binders. For each group, 36 samples were prepared by adding 50% 1% to 2% i) FA had 23.18%, 22.99%, 77.01% lower density, conductivity, compressive strength than BA samples, respectively. 9.42% higher porosity samples. ii) (0.177 W/mK) (0.221 wi...