Kaitera, Juha

D.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Docent, Researcher

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Expertise

• forest pathology
• scleroderris canker
• pine stem rusts
• white-pine blister rust
• cherry-spruce rust
• inland spruce cone rust
• Chrysomyxa needle rust

Research Projects

Current

• Alien species and spruce pathogens
  
• Biology and control of Heterobasidion spp.
  

Former

• Adaption to local climate and dispersion potential of some conifer pathogens in Europe
  
• Aetiology and epidemiology of forest diseases
  
• Evaluation of future risks of alien species and old pathogens on new hosts
  
• Forest regeneration in the special conditions of northern Finland
  
• Monitoring Infection by Heterobasidion and Cronartium in Spruce and Pine Stand by Airborne Image Spectrometry (AISA)
  
• Quality chain of forest regeneration from seed production to early tending
  
• Shoot and foliage diseases
  
• The Lapland Forest Damage Project
  

Contacts

Keywords: Cronartium rusts, Scleroderris canker, cone rusts, resin-top disease