Studies on the Selection and Appraisal of Blight-disease-resistant Families of Aleurites fordii

Investigations conducted in the recent 10 years have showed that the major varieties or forms, as well as most of the open-pollination progenies from blight-disease-resistant parent individuals of Aleurites fordii were not tolerant to the blight disease infected by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. aleuritidis. However, trees of the first generation from self-pollination of the resistant individual R44(6) and from crossbreeding of R44(6)×R53(9) were found to possess an evident resistance to the disease. The early effective examination of the disease resistance was conducted by inoculation through application of the fungus suspension to wounded roots at the young seedling stage. It was also found that the content of amino acid in resistant trees was significantly higher than that in the susceptive ones, but lower than that in A. montana trees, which are immune from the wilt disease.