The American chestnut was once among the trees of the culturally and economically importantEastern United States, but during the last centuryfour billion trees lost due to late blight chestnut.
With the wood of the tree nor the chestnut was important for people and animals - not only food chestnuts were a cash crop for the people of the Appalachians, because the street vendors selling fresh-roasted in the big cities viewers. It's in the Christmas Song!
What is the problem? It seems that in 1904 a tree bark imported Asian fungus Cryphonectria (formerly Endothia parasitica). In efforts to curb the spread of the pest, some logging was likely to accelerate what the death of trees that were sufficient strength and prevent any possibility of herd immunity.
In the last half century, researchers have tried, trees more resistant versions of the American chestnut, but the mixture does not work if there is a case to make in the environmentalists are behind is genetic changes, because nature has basically killed the deal. is the focus in the past, racial mixing "organic" can not us with a Chinese chestnut, but to selectively remove all the characteristics of China to do except for resistance to powdery mildew Science, the American chestnut protection of the fungus, but in all other aspects of the original. It takes time, however, and some money.
American Chestnut Foundation was founded in 1983 and is a 501 (c) 3 organization based in Asheville, North Carolina to the American chestnut tree dedicated to Appalachian - an estimated 25 percent of the trees in the Appalachians once American chestnut. If you are looking for a present non-traditional www.acf.org visit and a donation will also receive a subscription to the journal of the AmericanChestnut Foundation and a few nuts for planting.
With the wood of the tree nor the chestnut was important for people and animals - not only food chestnuts were a cash crop for the people of the Appalachians, because the street vendors selling fresh-roasted in the big cities viewers. It's in the Christmas Song!
What is the problem? It seems that in 1904 a tree bark imported Asian fungus Cryphonectria (formerly Endothia parasitica). In efforts to curb the spread of the pest, some logging was likely to accelerate what the death of trees that were sufficient strength and prevent any possibility of herd immunity.
In the last half century, researchers have tried, trees more resistant versions of the American chestnut, but the mixture does not work if there is a case to make in the environmentalists are behind is genetic changes, because nature has basically killed the deal. is the focus in the past, racial mixing "organic" can not us with a Chinese chestnut, but to selectively remove all the characteristics of China to do except for resistance to powdery mildew Science, the American chestnut protection of the fungus, but in all other aspects of the original. It takes time, however, and some money.
American Chestnut Foundation was founded in 1983 and is a 501 (c) 3 organization based in Asheville, North Carolina to the American chestnut tree dedicated to Appalachian - an estimated 25 percent of the trees in the Appalachians once American chestnut. If you are looking for a present non-traditional www.acf.org visit and a donation will also receive a subscription to the journal of the AmericanChestnut Foundation and a few nuts for planting.
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