Sirococcus shoot blight on Picea spinulosa in Bhutan

We thank the Conifer Research and Training Partnership (CORET, http://woek.boku.ac.at/coret/), funded by the Austrian Development Co-operation (Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the Royal Government of Bhutan for the opportunity and partial funding to undertake this study.

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