A Progress Report on Attempts to Bring Back the Chestnut Tree in the Eastern United States, 1954-1964
Year: 1965
Type: article
Abstract: Efforts to bring back the chestnut as a forest-tree species have had only limited success. Of the hundreds of surviving American chestnut trees tested for resistance to the blight fungus Endothia parasitica, few have even the slightest degree of resistance. Substitutes have been more successful. Of Asiatic trees imported, several show promise. Tree breeding programs have had some successes. Of thousands of hybrids produced, about 3 percent exhibit to some degree blight resistance, rapid growth, and forest-tree form. Treatments with colchicine and irradiation are being tried to produce a mutant of American chestnut that has blight resistance.
Source: Journal of Forestry
DOI: 10.1093/jof/63.3.186
Authors: Jesse D. Diller, Russell B. Clapper
Language: English
Subfield: Virology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Life on land, Zero hunger
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,890
OpenAlex ID: W2946201101