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SUBMITTER: Torello Marinoni D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7465717 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Torello Marinoni Daniela D Nishio Sogo S Valentini Nadia N Shirasawa Kenta K Acquadro Alberto A Portis Ezio E Alma Alberto A Akkak Aziz A Pavese Vera V Cavalet-Giorsa Emile E Botta Roberto R
Plants (Basel, Switzerland) 20200818 8
<i>Castanea sativa</i> is an important multipurpose species in Europe for nut and timber production as well as for its role in the landscape and in the forest ecosystem. This species has low tolerance to chestnut gall wasp (<i>Dryocosmus kuriphilus</i> Yasumatsu), which is a pest that was accidentally introduced into Europe in early 2000 and devastated forest and orchard trees. Resistance to the gall wasp was found in the hybrid cultivar 'Bouche de Bétizac' (<i>C. sativa</i> × <i>C. crenata</i>) ...[more]