Survey and geographic distribution of chestnut blight in Portugal Prospecção e distribuição geográfica do cancro do castanheiro em Portugal

Cryphonectria parasitica, the fungus that causes chestnut blight disease, was first described in Portugal (1929) on bark samples of Castanea crenata, collected in Beira Interior province. After this report, only in 1989 two disease foci were found on native European chestnut, C. sativa, in Trás-os-M...

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Main Authors: Helena Bragança, Sofia Simões, Miguel Capelo, José Marcelino, Natércia Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade de Ciências Agrárias de Portugal 2008-12-01
Series:Revista de Ciências Agrárias
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.oces.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0871-018X2008000200018