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- Buchanan, W. D. 1958b. The small oak bark beetle transmits the oak wilt disease . Journal of Forestry 56:414-415.
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- Buchanan, W. D. 1965. Dutch elm disease moves south . Forest Farmer 24:12.
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- Buchanan, W. D. 1969a. Historical resume of the Dutch elm disease in the United States. International Shade Tree Conference. Mimeographed. 8 p.
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- Buchanan, W. D., and C. May. 1942. Technique for artificially feeding Scolytus multistriatus and Saperda tridentata spores of Ceratostomella ulmi and other substances . Phytopathology 32:95-97.
- Buchanan, W. D., and S. J. Smucker. 1942. Reactivation of Ceratostomella ulmi in occluded infections and contamination of Scolytus multistriatus . Journal of Economic Entomology 35:178-180.
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- Thomas, W. D., G. M. List, M. E. Michaelson, and W. D. Buchanan. 1948. Dutch elm disease in Colorado . Plant Disease Reporter 32:317.
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