Description:
Investigations of containerized western white pine, western larch, and Douglas-fir seedlings at the Western
Forest Systems Nursery in Lewiston, Idaho, revealed that many seedlings were colonized with Fusarium
oxysporum although they lacked severe disease symptoms. White pine seedlings were also infected with
Pythium spp., probably as a result of sowing infected seed. Styroblock containers in which seedlings were
being grown were often colonized with F. oxysporum. Infected containers may be an important source of
Fusarium inoculum and may provide the means by which these fungi are transmitted from one crop of
seedlings to the next.