Pine resin is a non-wood forest product that has been used for multiple purposes since
ancient times throughout the world. In recent years, resin tapping activity has increased in …

Abstract Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) is native to the western Mediterranean basin and
has an economic importance in southwestern Europe. This importance is based on the use …

A raw pine resin, which is a cheap, renewable and easily obtainable forest resource, was
used to impregnate two different fast-growing solid woods (Eucalyptus grandis Hill Maiden …

Resin ducts are important anatomical defensive traits related to biotic resistance in conifers.
Previous studies have reported intraspecific genetic variation in resin duct characteristics …

Intraspecific variation in plant defences is expected to be the result of adaptive and plastic
responses to environmental conditions, where trade-offs between growth and defences are …

Interspecific phenotypic variation in plant secondary metabolites (PSM) is often explained by
biotic and abiotic factors. However, patterns of variation within species do not clearly fit the …

The resource availability hypothesis (RAH) was formulated to disentangle patterns of
variation among species in plant antiherbivore defences. A novel theoretical framework was …

In Portugal, the pine black sawyer Monochamus galloprovincialis is the principal vector of
the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, the causal agent of pine wilt disease …

Resins obtained from Pinus genus species have been widely used in very different fields
throughout history. As soon as the resins are secreted, molecular changes start altering their …

Key message Migration ability of the PWN through wood branch tissues of adult Maritime
pine trees significantly differed among Iberian provenances and this variation was related to …