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Tolerance of Acacia populations following inoculation with the Ceratocystis canker and wilt pathogen in Vietnam

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Inoculations of two Acacia populations were used to estimate the level of genetic control for tolerance to Ceratocystis canker and wilt disease following inoculation with the causal pathogen, Ceratocystis manginecans. The first screening utilised a range of clones commonly established in Vietnam along with new candidate clones and provided evidence that variation in wilt symptoms is under a moderate level of genetic control in current deployment populations. Subsequent assessments of tolerance in a pedigreed Acacia auriculiformis progeny trial indicated that internal lesion length assessments were less influenced by seedling height and produced higher heritability estimates than external lesion length assessments. Heritability estimates for damage to detached phyllodes following inoculation increased from 2 to 4 weeks, at which point many leaves were entirely damaged. Assessments of phyllode damage were more heritable than assessments of stem damage, and positive genetic correlations between stems and phyllode damage indicate that families will rank similarly for both traits. If validation trials confirm the results of this study in larger trees, screening as described herein may be used to develop acacia breeds with greater disease tolerance.

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The support, mentoring and critical review of this work that has been provided by Chris Harwood and Rod Griffin is greatly appreciated.

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We would like thank the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, the Vietnamese Academy of Forest Science, the University of the Sunshine Coast and the University of Tasmania for supporting this work.

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JB designed experiments, analysed data, wrote manuscript; NMC and NC managed plant and isolate production, implemented experiments and revised manuscript; MG and CM revised manuscript and managed ACIAR project; PQT and NDK conceptualised project, managed ACIAR project and revised manuscript.

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Correspondence to Jeremy Brawner.

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Data generated by this study are available in the TreeGenes data base (Accession number). Data is provided for each trial in a single file that includes all design variables, family or clone accession codes and all raw data for disease symptoms that were used for this publication.

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Brawner, J., Chi, N.M., Chi, N. et al. Tolerance of Acacia populations following inoculation with the Ceratocystis canker and wilt pathogen in Vietnam. Tree Genetics & Genomes 16, 77 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11295-020-01470-y

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