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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

That's interesting. They are, in a sense, competing with the American 
Chestnut Foundation

http://www.acf.org/mission_history.php

The ACF also has some blight-resistant trees, and expect to have resistant 
trees available for planting in about 5 years. They got there by 
cross-breeding with Chinese chestnuts, but have been re-crossing and 
re-crossing with American chestnuts, while testing to retain the small number 
of genes that is responsible for resistence. They are currently working with 
trees that are 15/16th American.

http://www.acf.org/r_r.php

On Nov 6, 2014, at 9:08 PM, Elizabeth Hilborn wrote:

> 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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