Auburn University

Brown Spot Needle Blight

 
 

Brown Spot Needle Blight (BSNB) Information

Grant Pages

Mitigating Needle Blight Project Components

Meet the Research Team

Meet the Graduate Students

Maps

Brown Spot Needle Blight Update Map 5/27/2025

 

Websites

Brown Spot Needle Blight of Loblolly Pine

 

Presentations

Identification and Distribution of Fungal Pathogens associated with Loblolly Pine Defoliation and Mortality in the Southeastern U.S.

Who are Killing the Loblolly Pine Trees in the Southeastern USA?

Brown Spot Needle Blight Update Forest Health Cooperative 2021

Brown Spot Infection Patterns 12/2/2021

Is Brown Spot Needle Blight Going to be the Next Threat to Plantation Forestry?

 

Additional Reading Materials

Invasive brown spot needle blight caused by Lecanosticta acicola in Estonia (2015)

Towards a genome sequence of the brown spot needle blight pathogen (2015)

Lecanosticta acicola, causal fungus of brown spot needle blight in Pinus thunbergii, new to Japan (1998)