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Table 1. Treatments included in the five research questions listed in the Methods and Materials. Treatments (C: Control, I: Inoculated, A: Attacked). Only cells with “X” in a row were included in the analysis. For question 4, only the trenched-attacked treatment was included. For question 5, dying trees in the trenched-attacked treatment were compared with live trees in all six treatments including those that survived in the trenched-attacked treatment.