North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>]

The American Chestnut Cooperators' Foundation, headquartered out of the 
Dept. of Plant Pathology and Weed Science, at Virginia Tech, has a 
long-term breeding program in place, utilitizing ONLY American chestnut 
germplasm, from surviving trees which have shown resistance to the blight, 
or have become infected and 'healed' themselves.  They make seedlings and 
seednuts available to cooperators on a yearly basis.  No guarantees of 
blight resistance, but hopefully, at least some of the seedlings will 
inherit the blight-resistance genes from their parents.
In addition to the breeding program, ACCF and cooperating plant scientists 
at VA Tech are investigating hypovirulent strains of the blight fungus, etc.

http://ipm.ppws.vt.edu/griffin/accf.html

Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY


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