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

Plants, 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.
Zhuoya Liu, Wen-Lu Bi, Mukund R. Shukla, Praveen K. Saxena   +3 more
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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 ...
Thomas Klak, Hannah Pilkey, Virginia G. May, Dakota Matthews, Allison D. Oakes, Ek Han Tan, Andrew E. Newhouse   +6 more
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Comparison of the transcriptomes of American chestnut (Castanea dentata) and Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima) in response to the chestnut blight infection [PDF]

BMC Plant Biology, 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 ...
Wheeler Nicholas, Powell William A, Baier Kathleen, Smith Chris, Zhang Yi, DiLoreto Denis S, Barakat Abdelali, Sederoff Ron, Carlson John E   +8 more
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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 ...
Jared W. Westbrook, Nicolette L Cagle
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Regional Variability of Chestnut (Castanea sativa) Tolerance Toward Blight Disease [PDF]

Plants
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 ...
Marin Ježić, Lucija Nuskern, Karla Peranić, Maja Popović, Mirna Ćurković-Perica, Ozren Mendaš, Ivan Škegro, Igor Poljak, Antonio Vidaković, Marilena Idžojtić   +9 more
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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, William Powell   +2 more
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Agrobacterium-mediated co-transformation of American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) somatic embryos with a wheat oxalate oxidase gene [PDF]

BMC Proceedings, 2011
Zhang Bo, Newhouse Andrew, McGuigan Linda, Maynard Charles, Powell William   +4 more
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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
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جایگاه تاکسونومیکی و تنوع ژنتیکی جنس شاه‌بلوط (راشیان) در شمال ایران براساس ناحیه ژنی psbA و بین‌ژنی trnH-psbA [PDF]

رستنی‌ها, 2014
شاه‌بلوط اروپایی (Castanea sativa Mill.) یکی از گونه‌های ارزشمند در خطر جنگل­های هیرکانی است. در این تحقیق، استفاده از نشانگرهای مولکولی به عنوان روشی آسان و سریع برای شناسایی جایگاه تاکسونومیکی شاه‌بلوط­های شمال ایران مورد استفاده قرار گرفت.
فاطمه اکبرزاده روشن, اباصلت حسین‌زاده کلاگر, حامد یوسف‌زاده   +2 more
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