William Powell American Chestnut Lecture

Lecture given at Cornell University on October 21, 2014. Presented by William Powell, Co-Director of the American Chestnut Research & Restoration Project. www.esf.edu/chestnut/

[@jackprier7727]

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

[@megelizabeth9492]

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.

[@NYCamper62]

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.

[@daltonv5206]

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?

[@carybooth7417]

Dalton v k

[@ramdts2231]

So on then!!!z🙏😀🙏

[@ramdts2231]

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