* Results for Japanese knotweed in North America are reprinted from
Andersen and Elkinton (2022) with permission.
Table 2: Climate suitability of candidate strains for each
target species as determined by the presence or absence of suitable
habitat in the geographical vicinity of the source locality for each
candidate strain of A. itadori against each target species of
knotweed (Japanese = R. japonica , Bohemian = R. ×bohemica , and Giant = R. sachalinensis ).