
%0 Journal Article
%A Carter, MV 
%A Moller, WJ 
%T Duration of susceptibility of apricot pruning wounds to infection by <I>Eutypa armeniacae</I>
%J Australian Journal of Agricultural Research
%D 1970/12/01
%V 21
%N 6
%P 915-920
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AR9700915
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AR9700915 
%X The duration of susceptibility to infection by Eutypa armeniacae has been studied in field experiments involving inoculation of pruning wounds on apricot trees within and outside a rainproof shelter, thereby enabling susceptibility to be assessed in the absence of natural infection. The susceptibility of wounds made in early winter on sheltered trees declined from 100% on the day of pruning to c. 30% 4 weeks later. On unsheltered trees exposed to natural infection, inoculation of 2-week-old wounds did not increase the proportion infected above that occurring in non-inoculated wounds. An hypothesis is advanced to explain the decline in susceptibility with age of wound. 
