Good explanation of the biochemistry and cell-culture. I remember seeing huge dead, some standing, grey skeletons of chestnut in GSMNP in N.C.-- high, up, in the late 70s
While I applaud Mr. Powell & his team for the research he made a point at 15:10+ about the hybrid - Dunstan unable to survive in the forest. This information is inaccurate. I have 9 of these trees on my property in upstate NY (4b). They are doing well. I have planted them in areas where due to recent logging they receive sufficient sun, in small proximity groups. In fact one group of 3 was a set I bought from the Walmart clearance section. You know all dried up in front of the store. And these came back from shoots and are now 3'+ in one years time.
Where upstate do you have them? I have one property in Madison county, and another in the adks that I'm going to plant chestnuts at. Can't decide what variety I want. Have the dunstans taken a timber form like Americans do? Or are they more spread like Chinese?
I imagine crossing them with the already somewhat blight resistant backcrosses would be a good next step. It would require more refining, but it would be a good way to reintroduce the genetic diversity that it would need to survive in the wild, while hopefully giving an extra layer of redundancy to the blight resistance traits.
Good explanation of the biochemistry and cell-culture. I remember seeing huge dead, some standing, grey skeletons of chestnut in GSMNP in N.C.-- high, up, in the late 70s
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While I applaud Mr. Powell & his team for the research he made a point at 15:10+ about the hybrid - Dunstan unable to survive in the forest. This information is inaccurate. I have 9 of these trees on my property in upstate NY (4b). They are doing well. I have planted them in areas where due to recent logging they receive sufficient sun, in small proximity groups. In fact one group of 3 was a set I bought from the Walmart clearance section. You know all dried up in front of the store. And these came back from shoots and are now 3'+ in one years time.
Where upstate do you have them? I have one property in Madison county, and another in the adks that I'm going to plant chestnuts at. Can't decide what variety I want. Have the dunstans taken a timber form like Americans do? Or are they more spread like Chinese?
Dalton v k
I imagine crossing them with the already somewhat blight resistant backcrosses would be a good next step. It would require more refining, but it would be a good way to reintroduce the genetic diversity that it would need to survive in the wild, while hopefully giving an extra layer of redundancy to the blight resistance traits.
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