Portuguese Castanea sativa Genetic Resources: Characterization, Productive Challenges and Breeding Efforts

M Braga, SS Araújo, H Sales, R Pontes, J Nunes - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chestnuts are multipurpose trees that grow mainly in the Northern Hemisphere due to their
aptitude for fruit and wood production. These trees are vastly significant for the economy and …

A Review of the Use of Chestnut in Traditional and Innovative Food Products.

R Guiné, C Costa, SG Florença, P Correia - Journal of Nuts, 2022 - repositorio.ipv.pt
Chestnuts have been consumed in Portugal for immemorial times. These fruits are highly
appreciated, not only due to their organoleptic characteristics but also due to their nutritional …

Variation in grafted European chestnut and hybrids by microsatellites reveals two main origins in the Iberian Peninsula

S Pereira-Lorenzo, RML Costa… - Tree Genetics & …, 2010 - Springer
This is the first known large-scale molecular study of simple sequence repeats (SSR) loci
based on samples from grafted trees found in the Iberian Peninsula and Canary Islands and …

Microsatellite-based characterization of the Castanea sativa cultivar heritage of southern Switzerland

D Gobbin, L Hohl, L Conza, M Jermini, C Gessler… - …, 2007 - cdnsciencepub.com
Southern Switzerland has a long tradition of chestnut cultivation as a staple food. Local
inhabitants constantly selected varieties according to the ripening period, the type of use …

Chestnut cultivar diversification process in the Iberian Peninsula, Canary Islands, and Azores

S Pereira-Lorenzo, RML Costa, AM Ramos-Cabrer… - …, 2011 - cdnsciencepub.com
This is a large-scale molecular study based on simple sequence repeat (SSR) loci of the
diversification process in chestnut cultivars from Portugal and Spain, from the northern …

Study of morphological and phenological diversity in chestnut trees ('Judia'variety) as a function of temperature sum

LT Dinis, F Peixoto, T Pinto, R Costa… - Environmental and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Morphological and histological adaptation of chestnut leaves at the different altitudes and
edaphoclimate conditions were shown. The study was carried out on Castanea sativa Mill …

[HTML][HTML] Variability of the Moroccan sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.): Contribution of the morphological parameters and qualitative descriptors of the nut

I Toujgani, S El Fatehi, M Ater, Y Hmimsa - Journal of the Saudi Society of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The areas occupied by the common chestnut tree, Castanea sativa Mill. are continuously
declining on an international scale. In Morocco, the chestnut trees are present in a restricted …

[HTML][HTML] Chestnut as a culinary ingredient: analysis of recipes and proposed innovative thematic menu

SG Florença, PMR Correia, MJ Lima… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chestnuts are natural dried fruits grown in many regions of the globe and have been used in
different gastronomic preparations for centuries. Chestnuts are part of the local gastronomic …

Nutriproteomics survey of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Miller) genetic resources in Portugal

M Ribeiro, M Freitas, R Dominguez-Perles, AI Barros… - Food Bioscience, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Miller) is a tree species whose edible fruit was a
staple food for many centuries until the emergence of potato and cereal crops. Once of great …

[PDF][PDF] Morphometric characteristics of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) fruits.

O Grygorieva, S Klymenko, J Brindza, Z Schubertová… - 2017 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Aim of this study was to determine morphometric differences of fruits between selected
sweet chestnuts (Castanea sativa Mill.). The 28 genotypes (referred as CS-01 to CS-28) …