The pine wilting disease prevalent in western Japan was studied with respect to the pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus lignicolus , as a causal agent. The relationship between the behavior of nematode populations within pines and disease development is discussed.
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Kiyohara et al. (1978) studied this question.
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