American chestnut
I’ve been watching the American Chestnut Foundation for some time as they have worked to develop a blight resistant American Chestnut tree. The American Chestnut was nearly wiped out by a blight in the early 20th century.
They have developed a blight resistant variety and are seeking approval to deregulate this variety.
You can read more about it here, and if interested make commit on the application:
https://acf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/web3-transgenic-tree.pdf
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Seems the formatting got messed up, but the foundation site is acf.org and the pdf doc is:
https://acf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/web3-transgenic-tree.pdf
Thanks
We had tried several years ago to grow these and they always got blighted-glad to hear they may have solved this and will look into it again. We have 130 year old Chestnut furniture made from my husband’s family farm. Such a beautiful and strong wood.
Kathy
You can get Dunstan chestnuts from https://chestnutridgeofpikecounty.com/shop/
If I’m correct, Dunstan are a cross between Chinese chestnuts and an American chestnut that was naturally blight resistant, but don’t hold me to that.
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