Identification and Mapping of Eastern Filbert Blight Resistance Quantitative Trait Loci in European Hazelnut Using Double Digestion Restriction Site Associated DNA Sequencing
Journal: Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science
Year: 2019

European hazelnut ( Corylus avellana L.) is an economically important edible nut producing species, which ranked sixth in world tree nut production in 2016. European hazelnut production in the United States is primarily limited to the Willamette Valley of Oregon, and currently nonexistent in the eastern United States because of the presence of a devastating endemic disease, eastern filbert blight (EFB) caused by Anisogramma anomala (Peck) E. Muller. The primary commercial means of control of EFB