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I have maybe 20 buartnuts planted & over the years I've lost 3 of them
to canker, so the cross does not guarantee resistance.  But then again
every native butternut on our various properties died years ago....

~mIEKAL



On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Dr. Lucky Pittman
<lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu> wrote:
>  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
>