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The Best Nut Trees To Grow In Your Yard (And Which Ones To Avoid)
Nut trees make great additions to your yard - and your kitchen - but which are worth growing, and which should you avoid? Let ...
Hackaday2mon
Hacking Trees To Bring Back The American Chestnut
While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves ... been crossing blight and PRR-resistant Chinese chestnuts with the American type.
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Enhanced Blight Resistance in Transgenic American Chestnut
From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...
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The American Chestnut Project
No, Darling American chestnuts are not hybrids. Hybrid trees have a blended genome from two related species, such as American chestnut and Chinese chestnut. In contrast, Darling trees retain all of ...
Big14d
Inaugural ‘Pennsylvania Chestnut Festival’ promotes history and conservation efforts
A new festival in Castanea Township, Clinton County, looks to celebrate the area’s chestnut history and raise awareness about its recovery efforts.
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Enormous Dinosaur Skull Uncovers a Previously Unknown Species
The research team dubbed the animal Lishulong wangi—”lishu” from the Chinese spelling of chestnut tree, “long” in reference to a dragon, and “wangi” after a vertebrate ...