INVENTORY OF CHESTNUT RESEARCH, GERMPLASM AND REFERENCES

FAO Regional Office for Europe
Interregional Cooperative Research Network on Nuts
(ESCORENA)

 
   

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Giancarlo Bounous
Department of Arboriculture, University of Turin (Italy)

With the collaboration of:
Angèle Barrel
Gabriele Beccaro
Claudio Lovisolo
Department of Arboriculture, University of Turin (Italy)

José Antonio Gomes Pereira
Alcobaça (Portugal)

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Rome, 2001

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PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHESTNUT PRODUCTION STATISTICS

MAIN DISEASES

STORAGE AND PROCESSING

CHESTNUT OR MARRON

GENETIC RESOURCES

Descriptors scale for chestnut cultivars
Austria
China
France
Hungary
Korea
Italy
Portugal
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Spain
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom

NATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

Australia
Austria
China
France
Japan
Greece
Italy
Korea
Netherlands
Portugal
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Spain
Turkey

SCIENTISTS INVOLVED IN CHESTNUT RESEARCH

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

THE FAO-CIHEAM INTER-REGIONAL COOPERATIVE RESEARCH NETWORK ON NUTS

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