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Speed Breeding Transgenic American Chestnut Trees Toward Restoration. [PDF]

Plant Direct
The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was a dominant, foundational forest canopy tree in eastern North America until an imported chestnut blight (caused by Cryphonectria parasitica) rendered it functionally extinct across its native range ...
Klak T, Pilkey H, May VG, Matthews D, Oakes AD, Tan EH, Newhouse AE.   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

In Vitro Technologies for American Chestnut (Castanea dentata (Marshall) Borkh) Conservation. [PDF]

Plants (Basel), 2022
American chestnut (Castanea dentata), a native species of eastern North America, is an economically important deciduous hardwood tree that has been designated as endangered in Canada.
Liu Z, Bi WL, Shukla MR, Saxena PK.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Identifying resilient restoration targets: Mapping and forecasting habitat suitability for Castanea dentata in Eastern USA under different climate-change scenarios

Climate Change Ecology, 2021
Following the near-eradication of the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) over the last century by an invasive fungal pathogen, progress has been made in recent decades towards generating blight-resistant varieties for restoration in its former native ...
Nicolette L Cagle, Jared W Westbrook
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Decoding drought tolerance from a genomic approach in Castanea sativa Mill. [PDF]

Plant Genome
Abstract Climate change, marked by prolonged periods of extreme summer drought coupled with heat, presents a significant challenge for chestnut forests. Genomic insight into drought tolerance in Castanea sativa is essential for enhancing the adaptation of this species to climate change.
Perez-Rial A, Castro P, Solla A, Martín MA, Die JV.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Comparison of the transcriptomes of American chestnut (Castanea dentata) and Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima) in response to the chestnut blight infection. [PDF]

BMC Plant Biol, 2009
Background1471-2229-9-51 American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was devastated by an exotic pathogen in the beginning of the twentieth century. This chestnut blight is caused by Cryphonectria parasitica, a fungus that infects stem tissues and kills the ...
Barakat A, DiLoreto DS, Zhang Y, Smith C, Baier K, Powell WA, Wheeler N, Sederoff R, Carlson JE.   +8 more
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Regional Variability of Chestnut (Castanea sativa) Tolerance Toward Blight Disease. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Since its introduction into Europe in the first half of the 20th century, Cryphonectria parasitica has been gradually spreading across the natural range of the sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.), infecting the trees and causing lethal bark cankers ...
Ježić M, Nuskern L, Peranić K, Popović M, Ćurković-Perica M, Mendaš O, Škegro I, Poljak I, Vidaković A, Idžojtić M.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A threshold level of oxalate oxidase transgene expression reduces Cryphonectria parasitica-induced necrosis in a transgenic American chestnut (Castanea dentata) leaf bioassay [PDF]

Transgenic Research, 2013
Allison D Oakes, Andrew E Newhouse, Charles A Maynard   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Agrobacterium-mediated co-transformation of American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) somatic embryos with a wheat oxalate oxidase gene [PDF]

BMC Proc, 2011
Zhang B, Newhouse A, McGuigan L, Maynard C, Powell W.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Descriptions of Chestnut Cultivars for Nut Production in the Eastern and Midwestern United States

HortScience, 2021
The Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima Blume) and other Castanea species (Castanea spp. Mill.) have been imported and circulated among growers and scientists in the United States for more than a century. Initially, importations of C.
Ronald S. Revord, J. Michael Nave, Ronald S. Revord, J. Michael Nave, Gregory Miller, Nicholas Meier, J. Bryan Webber, Michael A. Gold, Tom Wahl   +8 more
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Response of chestnut hybrid seedlings to forest management strategies in an Appalachian cove forest ecosystem

Trees, Forests and People, 2022
American chestnut (Castanea dentata (Marsh) Borkh.), once a co-dominant canopy species in eastern U.S. forests, has been functionally extinct for almost a century.
Heather Griscom, Zoe Bergman, Cassie Stark, Cindy Ingram   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source