Forest health worldwide is impacted by many invasive alien pathogens and pests (IAPPs)
that cause significant harm, with severe economic losses and environmental alterations …

Abstract Geosmithia (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) and their associations with bark beetles
have long been in the shadow of the more often studied beetle associates: Ophiostomatales …

Walnut (Juglans) species are used as nut crops worldwide. Eastern black walnut (EBW,
Juglans nigra), a diploid, horticultural important woody species is native to much of eastern …

The cultivation of walnuts (Juglans sp.) in Europe retains high economic, social, and
environmental value. The recent reporting of the Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD) fungus …

The walnut twig beetle Pityophthorus juglandis is a phloem-boring bark beetle responsible,
in association with the ascomycete Geosmithia morbida, for the Thousand Cankers Disease …

Walnut species (Juglans spp.) are multipurpose trees, widely employed in plantation forestry
for high-quality timber and nut production, as well as in urban greening as ornamental …

High-throughput sequencing (HTS) studies on invertebrates commonly use ethanol as the
main sample fixative (upon collection) and preservative (for storage and curation). However …

Thousand cankers disease (TCD) is a new deadly disease in walnut trees (Juglans spp.),
which is plaguing commercial plantations, natural groves, and ornamental black walnut …

Tree pathogens and pests are fundamental components of forest ecosystems. By killing and
decomposing susceptible trees, they regulate the cycle of nutrients and energy flow, thus …

Bark beetles vector symbiotic fungi and the success of these mutualisms may be limited by
competition from other microbes. The outcome of fungal competition is strongly influenced …