to evaluate fertility status and mating type distribution of cryphonectria parasitica, causal agent of chestnut blight in guilan province, four sites in two main growing regions of: shaft (visrud, taleghan and babarekab), and rezvanshahr (doran) were investigated. during the study, fifty four isolates of c. parasitica were examined. c. parasitica isolates were crossed with each of the two matin...