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Some of the chinquapin have some blight resistance and the chinquapin foundation is trying to breed them to develop a blight resistant tree. You may want to contact them about your tree. SUNY-ESF is also crossing their blight resistant Darling 58 transgenic American chestnut with chinquapin to...

Hi,,, That is just what we have done here in NY, with the NY chapter of TACF working with SUNY-ESF in Syracuse. We are just waiting for government approval so we can distribute the transgenic material. The American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project. We have been working on this for over...

Also, SUNY-ESF in Syracuse, NY is working on developing transgenic Elm and other trees that will be resistant to other diseases, like Dutch Elm disease and Elm Yellows. https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/40752

I know there is a butternut blight, but it is NOT a mutated version of the chestnut blight. Chestnut blight, Dutch Elm Disease and Butternut Canker are all different diseases. See attached. https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/ja/ja_schlarbaum002.htm

A tree will actually survive best isolated from other trees, as it is less likely to get the blight. BUT they are not self pollinating so you need two trees to get fertile nuts. The problem with TACF's hybrid program they were working on is that as as soon as you cross one of their hybrid trees...

The blight is a fungus that lives in dead tissue, and will never go away, but there will be more spores where there are chestnut resprouts for the fungus to feed on. There are no known "stands" of trees anyplace within the native range that escaped the blight, or no known individual tree. If any...

You may not have seen this article. https://modernfarmer.com/2021/12/the-great-american-chestnut-tree-revival/ This is the first place that I see someone announcing that the TACF hybrid program did not work, and why it will not work!!! This holds true for any of the hybrid trees. The blight...

You may not have seen this article. https://modernfarmer.com/2021/12/the-great-american-chestnut-tree-revival/ This is the first place that I see someone announcing that the TACF hybrid program did not work, and why it will not work!!! This holds true for any of the hybrid trees. The blight...