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Evaluation of Four 25-year Families of Chinese Chestnut

In the early 1900's, chestnut blight caused a catastrophic loss of our native American chestnut, Castanea dentata (Marsh.) Borkh. With the realization among research workers that there appeared to be little, if any, blight resistance in the American chestnut population, an expedition was sent to the Orient to collect seed of the Chinese chestnut, C. mollissima Bl., that appeared to have resistance to the blight organism, Endothia parasitica (Murr.) A. and A. (Diller, 1950).


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Author(s): Roy N. Keys, Franklin C. Cech, William L. MacDonald

Publication: Tree Improvement and Genetics - Northeastern Forest Tree Improvement Conference - 1976