The objectives of this participative research program are:
1: Select surviving European chestnut trees within strong impacted areas by the ink disease
2: Evaluate their resistance against Phytophthora in laboratory, and verify their belonging to sweet chestnut, the species Castanea sativa.
3: Use the individuals showing the best resistance capacities against ink disease (“elite trees”) as seeds producers in seed orchards.
The expected results are:
– Reconquest and renewal of the actually declining chestnut orchards
– Decrease of production cost due to nuersery seedling production.
– Higher genetic diversity in the chestnut plantations.
Participatory selection of hardy and ink-disease resistant European chestnut trees
- Category: Wild Nuts & Berries
- Themes: Climate change adaptation & forest health
- Position in the value chain: R & D
- Type: Research
- Scale: National
- Country: France
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- Keywords: chestnut tree, disease resistance, forest nuts, orchard plantation
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