• Forewarned is forearmed: harmonized approaches for early detection of potentially invasive pests and pathogens in sentinel plantings 

      Morales-Rodríguez, Carmen; Anslan, Sten; Auger-Rozenberg, Marie-Anne; Augustin, Sylvie; Baranchikov, Yuri; Bellahirech, Amani; Burokienė, Daiva; Čepukoit, Dovilė; Çota, Ejup; Davydenko, Kateryna; Lehtijärvi, H. Tuğba Doğmuş; Drenkhan, Rein; Drenkhan, Tiia; Eschen, René; Franić, Iva; Glavendekić, Milka; de Groot, Maarten; Kacprzyk, Magdalena; Kenis, Marc; Kirichenko, Natalia; Matsiakh, Iryna; Musolin, Dmitry L.; Nowakowska, Justyna A.; O’Hanlon, Richard; Prospero, Simone; Roques, Alain; Santini, Alberto; Talgø, Venche; Tedersoo, Leho; Uimari, Anne; Vannini, Andrea; Witzell, Johanna; Woodward, Steve; Zambounis, Antonios; Cleary, Michelle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-21)
      The number of invasive alien pest and pathogen species affecting ecosystem functioning, human health and economies has increased dramatically over the last decades. Discoveries of invasive pests and pathogens previously ...
    • Highly Clonal Structure and Abundance of One Haplotype Characterise the Diplodia sapinea Populations in Europe and Western Asia 

      Adamson, Kalev; Laas, Marili; Blumenstein, Kathrin; Busskamp, Johanna; Langer, Gitta J.; Klavina, Darta; Kaur, Anu; Maaten, Tiit; Mullett, Martin S.; Müller, Michael M.; Ondrušková, Emília; Padari, Allar; Pilt, Enn; Riit, Taavi; Solheim, Halvor; Soonvald, Liina; Tedersoo, Leho; Terhonen, Eeva; Drenkhan, Rein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08-04)
      Diplodia sapinea is a cosmopolitan endophyte and opportunistic pathogen having occurred on several conifer species in Europe for at least 200 years. In Europe, disease outbreaks have increased on several Pinus spp. in the ...
    • The Relationship between Fungal Diversity and Invasibility of a Foliar Niche—The Case of Ash Dieback 

      Agan, Ahto; Drenkhan, Rein; Adamson, Kalev; Tedersoo, Leho; Solheim, Halvor; Børja, Isabella; Matsiakh, Iryna; Timmermann, Volkmar; Nagy, Nina Elisabeth; Hietala, Ari Mikko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-08-26)
      European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is threatened by the invasive ascomycete Hymenoscyphus fraxineus originating from Asia. Ash leaf tissues serve as a route for shoot infection but also as a sporulation substrate for this ...
    • Seasonal Dynamics of Fungi Associated with Healthy and Diseased Pinus sylvestris Needles in Northern Europe 

      Agan, Ahto; Solheim, Halvor; Adamson, Kalev; Hietala, Ari Mikko; Tedersoo, Leho; Drenkhan, Rein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08-17)
      The relationship between the ecological success of needle pathogens of forest trees and species richness of co-inhabiting endophytic fungi is poorly understood. One of the most dangerous foliar pathogens of pine is Dothistroma ...