[PCA] NEWS: Blight-resistant American Chestnut trees nearing reality

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20212141

Blight-resistant American Chestnut trees nearing reality
12/03/2008

The demise of the American chestnut is one of the great ecological 
disasters of our time, according to a chestnut expert in Penn State's 
College of Agricultural Sciences,

She envisions a day in the not-so-distant future when the huge trees will 
again be growing in American forests.hrough the first-half of the 20th 
century, the species (Castanea dentata) - which was by far the dominant 
forest tree species in Pennsylvania and the East - was virtually 
eliminated from the landscape by an Asiatic blight fungus (Cryphonectria 
parasitica) carried on exotic plant materials imported by plant explorers 
in the late 1800s.

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