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
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.
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?
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
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.
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?
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