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

At 05:42 PM 6/15/2004 +0000, Tanis wrote:
> I happened to see the May 04 issue of Discovery magazine; article about 
> progress in breeding a blight-resistant population of american chestnuts, 
> or at least finding a fungus which will fight the blight.  I found it 
> interesting enough to mention on this list.

Tanis,
Couldn't access the entire article, but since it mentioned Gary Griffin, 
I'm presuming it detailed the work of Gary, his wife Louise, the VA Tech 
folks, and all the American Chestnut Cooperators Foundation volunteers who 
are working to 'revive' the American Chestnut with a breeding program 
utilizing only 'pure' American chestnut genetics.
ACCF, being largely a volunteer organization, often seems to take a back 
seat in media coverage to The American Chestnut Foundation, which appears 
to be better funded - but TACF is using an infusion of Chinese chestnut 
genetics to provide blight resistance, rather than selecting pure American 
trees which exhibit innate resistance to infection with the blight fungus.

For anyone interested, please check out the ACCF website at:
http://ipm.ppws.vt.edu/griffin/accf.html

Lucky