Web sites with information on phytoplasmas (mycoplasma-like organisms):

Ash Yellows - identification and management and lilac witches' broom

Ash Yellows in Minnesota.pdf

Elm Yellows

Nematodes are exceedingly small round worms. These pine wood nematodes were extracted out of pine wood from a dead tree.

Pine wood nematode and pine wilt disease

Pine wilt disease information

Laboratory review: Review link will be added after the laboratory session on this topic has met.

Pine wood nematode

Fresh sample of Phoradendron leucarpum on a Citrus tree from Florida.

Witches' brooms on black spruce caused by Arceuthobium pusillum.

Dwarf mistletoe, Arceuthobium spp.

Dwarf Mistletoe Management (This contains a lot of good information and can be used as a future reference for those working to control dwarf mistletoe.)

Leafy Mistletoes

General characteristics of fungi

Fungi are not plants and are in a separate Kingdom of their own

Classification of fungi

General information on fungi

General Characteristics of Fungi

Asexual Ascomycota - Deuteromycota

General Characteristics of Fungi

Basidiomycota

Mushroom with gills

General Charateristics of Fungi

Ascomycota