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- New hope for an old chestnut. Lockwood, L. // Horticulture;Jun90, Vol. 68 Issue 6, p11
Explains the American Chestnut Foundation's breeding program to create blight-resistant American chestnut trees. Comments by the foundation's president, plant geneticist Philip Rutter; Breeding process; Chinese chestnuts; How chestnut blight wiped out the trees in the United States; Where to get...
- Analysis of chestnut and scarlet oak stump sprout growth Hopper, G. M.; Ross, M. S.; Tworkoski, T. J. // Canadian Journal of Forest Research;Jan1990, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p112
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- Allozyme variation within and among cultivated varieties of sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) Vendramin, G. G.; Morgante, M.; Fineschi, S.; Malvolti, M. E. // Canadian Journal of Forest Research;Jun1994, Vol. 24 Issue 6, p1160
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- The survivor. McRaven, C. // Country Journal;May/Jun90, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p34
Discusses the author's desire to save a lone American chestnut tree. Destruction of most chestnut trees by the chestnut blight starting in 1890; Benefits of chestnut wood; Blight research program. INSET: The once and future chestnut..
- Saving the American chestnut. Spede, Jani // Mother Earth News;Apr/May94, Issue 143, p11
Comments on success in growing a hybrid chestnut resistant to the blight that wiped out American chestnut trees between 1904 and 1940. R.D. Wallace's 100 acres of blight-free Dunstan chestnuts in Alachua, Florida; Quality of nuts; Contact point for more information.
- Nutrient data on chestnuts consumed in the United States McCarthy, M. A.; Meredith, F. I. // Economic Botany;Jan/Mar1988, Vol. 42 Issue 1, p29
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- Information available from Michigan chestnut growers. // Countryside & Small Stock Journal;Jan/Feb93, Vol. 77 Issue 1, p71
Reports on the release of the report `Potential of Establishing an Edible Chestnut Industry in Michigan' by the Michigan Nut Growers Association. Description of the report's general contents; Report as addressing growers' need for information on orchard establishment costs and marketing; Data...
- Down but not out. Niven, Michael // American Forests;Nov/Dec94, Vol. 100 Issue 11/12, p54
Reports on the condition of Washington State's oldest and largest Spanish chestnut following natural and man-made disasters. Pruning of the central system; History of the tree; Calamities surpassed by the tree.
- Blight Has Devastated American Chestnut. Kaiser, Jo-Ann // Wood & Wood Products;Sep2001, Vol. 106 Issue 10, p28
Presents information on the American chestnut or Canstanea dentata. Number of chestnuts trees destroyed by blight in the first 40 years of the 20th century; Value of American chestnut trees for beauty and products.
