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  • From: Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [nafex] Blight resistant American Chestnuts
  • Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:08:46 -0500

They are apparently transgenic with a wheat oxalate oxidase gene which renders the trees resistant to fungal-associated pathology. They make the point that these new trees have more American Chestnut genetic material than the complex hybrids such as Dunstan.

It will be interesting to see how the trials go...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141106082032.htm




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