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Journal: Agronomy Special Issue Title: Wild and domesticated chestnut

genetic resources and its management in a context of high impact of biotic
stressors and warming

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Journal: Agronomy

Special Issue Title: Wild and domesticated chestnut genetic resources and its
management in a context of high impact of biotic stressors and warming

Special Issue Editor: Dr. Josefa Fernández López

Deadline: 30 December 2020

Summary

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last two decades, there has been a great advance in the knowledge of the genetic
structure of the natural populations of different species of the genus Castanea, as well as those
created by traditional domestication, in the case of C. sativa. It is a knowledge supported in
molecular genetics but also in trials that have allowed us to learn about adaptive variability
and, to a lesser extent, differences in resistance to diseases. This knowledge can be applied
both to the management of genetic resources, as well as to the development of new breeding
programs aimed at the selection of reproductive materials with quality, tolerance to diseases
(Phytophthora cinnamomi, P. cambivora, Cryphonectria parasitica, Dryocosmus kuriphilus,
etc.) and adaptation to drought and cold, wherever these characteristics are required. Greater
knowledge of species, together with the development of classical breeding programs and
techniques of vegetative propagation, molecular markers, genetic and genomic transformation,
should contribute to improving both conservation and production populations.

Original and synthesis papers will be accepted on the following topics:

1. Wild chestnut populations, its adaptive and quality traits and tolerance to biotic stresors.
2. Traditional domestication of chestnut
3. Selection and breeding, including interspecific hybridization for improvement in resistance
to diseases.
4. Breeding and selection tools: Genetic transformation, genomics, QTLs, vegetative
propagation, pollination techniques.

Guest Editor

Dr. Josefa Fernandez Lopez

Keywords:
Cryphonectria parasitica
Dryocosmus kuriphilus
Phytophthora cinnamomi
Phytophthora cambivora
Climate change
Drought stress
Frost injuries
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Genetic transformation
Hybridization
Molecular markers
QTLs