Chestnut blight

Infectious Forest Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 318-339

  Prospero, Simone ^a   Rigling, Daniel ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

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