Cooperative test plots produce some promising Chinese and hybrid chestnut trees

Jesse D. Diller; Russell B. Clapper; Richard A. Jaynes

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Cooperative test plots produce some promising Chinese and hybrid chestnut trees

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Jesse D. Diller, Russell B. Clapper, Richard A. Jaynes

Year:

1964

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Research Note NE-25. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 1-8

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Abstract

In attempts to find a chestnut tree that is resistant to the blight fungus Endothia parasitica, Asiatic chestnuts have been imported and grown in this country, and tree breeders have worked to produce hybrid trees that might be suitable substitutes for the blight-susceptible American chestnut, Castanea dentate, in timber and nut production.

Citation

Diller, Jesse D.; Clapper, Russell B.; Jaynes, Richard A. 1964. Cooperative test plots produce some promising Chinese and hybrid chestnut trees. Research Note NE-25. Upper Darby, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 1-8