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The Physiological and Biochemical Responses of European Chestnut (Castanea sativa L.) to Blight Fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica (Murill) Barr)

Plants, 2021
The most important disease of European chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) is chestnut blight caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica (Murrill) Barr which induces yield reduction in Europe and North America. This study aimed to investigate the impacts
Gabriella Enikő Kovács, Lóránt Szőke, Brigitta Tóth, Béla Kovács, Csaba Bojtor, Árpád Illés, László Radócz, Makoena Joyce Moloi, László Radócz   +8 more
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Mapping QTLs for blight resistance and morpho-phenological traits in inter-species hybrid families of chestnut (Castanea spp.)

Frontiers in Plant Science
Chestnut blight (caused by Cryphonectria parasitica), together with Phytophthora root rot (caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi), has nearly extirpated American chestnut (Castanea dentata) from its native range.
Shenghua Fan, Laura L. Georgi, Laura L. Georgi, Frederick V. Hebard, Tetyana Zhebentyayeva, Jiali Yu, Paul H. Sisco, Sara F. Fitzsimmons, Margaret E. Staton, Albert G. Abbott, C. Dana Nelson, C. Dana Nelson   +11 more
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Does management improve the state of chestnut (Castanea sativa L.) on Belasitsa Mountain, southwest Bulgaria?

iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2015
Chestnut forests in the Belasitsa Mountain region of southwest Bulgaria were traditionally intensively managed as orchard-like stands for nut production. More recently, management intensity has been sharply reduced as a result of rural abandonment, which
Zlatanov T, Velichkov I, Georgieva M, Hinkov G, Zlatanova M, Gogusev G, Eastaugh Chris S   +6 more
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Modeling and Analysis of American Chestnut Populations Subject to Various Stages of Infection

Letters in Biomathematics, 2014
American chestnuts, Castanea dentata, were once a dominant tree in eastern deciduous forests of the United States before the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, was introduced unintentionally in the early 1900s in New York.
Anita Davelos Baines, Eric Alan Eager, Andrew M. Jarosz   +2 more
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Reconstructing post‐crisis recovery in the hinterlands of Constantinople: A high‐resolution first‐millennium CE pollen record from Lake Yeniçağa (NW Türkiye)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola, Mustafa Doğan, Warren Eastwood, John Haldon, Alessia Masi, Neil Roberts, Çetin Şenkul, Adam Izdebski   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tradeoffs between brain and digestive tissues across elevations in Typhlomys daloushanensis: evidence for sexual dimorphism

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
To cope with highly stochastic and/or heterogeneous environmental conditions, animals must balance energy resource allocation across physiological processes. The digestive tract and brain exhibit structural variations under strong developmental and selective pressures that vary across environmental gradients both between and within species.
Yimei Yan, Bangqing Chen, Jifa Cui, Chris Newman, Boyu Lei, Nan Wu, Jinwei Wu, Jin Zhao, Christina D. Buesching, Youbing Zhou   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Demographic and genetic factors affect the use of translocation for evolutionary rescue: A case study of American chestnut using simulation

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 3, March 2026.
These findings underscore the importance, complexity and flexibility of strategic translocations for ensuring the recovery of plant species limited by adaptive genetic diversity. Abstract For many plant species at risk, recovery depends on supplementing populations with adaptive genetic diversity through translocations but specific introduction ...
Sophia S. Stoltz, Cortland K. Griswold, Brian C. Husband   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal strategies for utilizing host plant distributions to slow the spread of plant pests

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 2, February 2026.
Containment of invasive species can be made markedly more cost‐effective by prioritizing landscape features that naturally impede spread. Targeting treatments around host‐plant gaps supports a clear operational rule: use mating disruption where densities are low to prevent establishment and concentrate pesticides where densities are high to suppress ...
Adam Lampert, Andrew M. Liebhold
wiley   +1 more source

The implications of American chestnut reintroduction on landscape dynamics and carbon storage

Ecosphere, 2017
In the eastern United States, American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was historically a major component of forest communities, but was functionally extirpated in the early 20th century by an introduced pathogen, chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica ...
Eric J. Gustafson, Arjan deBruijn, Nathanael Lichti, Douglass F. Jacobs, Brian R. Sturtevant, Jane Foster, Brian R. Miranda, Harmony J. Dalgleish   +7 more
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Descriptions of Chestnut Cultivars for Nut Production in the Eastern and Midwestern United States

HortScience, 2021
The Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima Blume) and other Castanea species (Castanea spp. Mill.) have been imported and circulated among growers and scientists in the United States for more than a century. Initially, importations of C.
Ronald S. Revord, J. Michael Nave, Ronald S. Revord, J. Michael Nave, Gregory Miller, Nicholas Meier, J. Bryan Webber, Michael A. Gold, Tom Wahl   +8 more
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