First report of Gremmeniella abietina on Pinus halepensis in Spain

south of Palencia, north-west Spain inlate 1999. The symptoms of the disease included drying upof needles and branches with some distortion of terminaltwigs, resulting in dieback and death of trees. Affectedtrees occurred in five out of a total of 43 stands that wereexamined. Around three to four dead trees were found inthree of these five stands.Twig and shoot samples from diseased trees weresurface sterilized and placed on potato dextrose agar at15 ° C. The conidial state,