Struggling with blight, American chestnut tree faces new disease identified by Erie County researchers
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American chestnuts dominated Virginia's forests until an introduced fungal blight wiped them into functional extinction. Watch how researchers from DOF and the Virginia Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation use controlled pollination to breed chestnuts with greater blight resistance to restore this iconic tree species. 🌰🧪🌳 | Virginia Department of Forestry
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In face of devastating blight, one York County chestnut might hold key to species survival
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One of the greatest ecological disasters the US has ever seen. Chestnut blight wiped out the American chestnut tree in less than 50 years. A tree that once made up nearly 25% of the eastern forests was reduced to a functionally extinct species. The Asian fungus Cryphonectria parasitica was accidentally introduced into the United States in the late 1800s. While a few diseased chestnuts were noted in the 1880s and 90s, it wasn't until 1904 that the pathogen was identified in New York City. From th
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The American chestnut, once a pillar of forests across the eastern United States, is struggling to survive. A fungus identified in 1904 on a tree from Japan spread across the continent, decimating the American species in less than three decades. The American Chestnut Foundation has been working since the 1980s to resurrect the tree. Their mission: to fight the blight by combining crossbreeding with genetic modification. Read more: http://u.afp.com/iiEC | AFP News Agency
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2.9K views · 18 reactions | Ready for a downer? It's time to talk about chestnut blight. The American chestnut used to be one of the dominant trees in the eastern forests, until a non-native fungus was introduced from Asia in the late 1800's and wiped them out. Today there are almost no mature American chestnut trees left. But the question is, do our American chestnut friends Cassie & Denny have blight? Let's find out. | The American Chestnut Foundation | Facebook
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