The occurrence and pathogenicity of Geosmithia spp. and common blue-stain fun…

Fungi associated with the bark beetles Orthotomicus erosus, Tomicus destruens and Pityogenes calcaratus were sampled in various pine forests throughout Israel. Three ophiostomatoid fungi, Ophiostoma ips, Graphilbum rectangulosporium and Leptographium wingfieldii, and a fourth nonophiostomatoid fungus, Geosmithia sp. 24, were identified by using morphological characteristics and molecular geneti…