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

 Adrienne Bordo wrote:
"Finding blight resistant butternuts will
be the next challenge, mine is about to die."

Well, yes, if you mean pure J.cinerea, with no other Juglans genetics
included, but in reality, blight/canker-resistant 'butternuts' have been
around for a number of decades.  Several 'butternut' cultivars which have
been propagated for a long time have been shown, by DNA analysis, to be
hybrids of J.cinerea with the Japanese walnut, J.ailantifolia and its sport,
the heartnut.

Lucky