To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Resistant butternut
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:22:04 -0600
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
>