Recent advances in palaeoecology provide growing evidence of complex spatio-temporal
patterns of tree species survival during the last glaciation. The distribution of Sweet chestnut …

Thanks to the development of HTS technologies, a vast amount of genetic information on the
virosphere of temperate forests has been gained in the last seven years. To estimate the …

Forests cover over a third of the total land area of Europe. In recent years, large forest fires
have repeatedly affected Europe, in particular the Mediterranean countries. Fire danger is …

In the debate about tree species suited to cope with the ongoing global changes, Sweet
chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) is frequently discussed as a potentially future-proof tree …

CRISPR/Cas9 has emerged as the most important tool for genome engineering due to its
simplicity, design flexibility, and high efficiency. This technology makes it possible to induce …

Chestnut wood is a rich source of hydrolyzable tannins, which include gallotannins and
ellagitannins, such as castalin, vescalin, castalagin, and vescalagin. The study was aimed to …

Wind, insects, or both? The pollination mode of chestnuts, an important genus of nut-
producing forest trees of the Fagaceae family, is still unclear. We revisit this old question …

Areas of Quaternary refugia for tree species have been mainly delineated based on fossil
records and phylogeography, but niche modelling can provide useful complementary …

Chestnut, Castanea sativa Miller (Fagales: Fagaceae), is an ecologically and economically
important tree species of the forest ecosystem in Southern Europe, North-Western Europe …

Sweet chestnut agroforestry systems make valuable contributions to the landscape and
environment, fulfilling fundamental functions and processes. Net primary production (NPP) …