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Pests and diseases of chestnut

Nature

The chestnut tree is attacked by numerous pests and diseases: anthracnose, beetles, blight and leaf spot. The most important of these is chestnut blight, a canker disease, which since its introduction to North America in 1904 has eliminated the native chestnut as a commercial species.

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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Presentable
 Presentable
Language
English
1A4N
E2983
DOCID
11529830
D7NID
144520
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Last update
Oct 4, 2020