By Gayle Kida Although there are currently thousands of small native American chestnut (Castanea dentata) sprouts in the understory of Connecticut's forests, only a rare few escape or survive blight long enough to grow to flowering size. Fewer still are located...
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Professor Fenny Dane of Auburn University presented her Castanea Migration Theory at last year's CT Chapter Annual Meeting. Each Castanea species has several distinct chloroplast types. More differences can be detected among Asian species than within European or...
By James Egenrieder [reprinted with permission] There was a short but very interesting interview on NPR (public radio) on November 8, 2005 that quickly caught my attention. This interview was part of the daily All Things Considered program; the interviewee was...
A few weeks ago I had the chance to speak to Dr. David Wagner at the University of CT about the functional extinction of the American chestnut and he commented with an anecdote I'd not heard before. He pointed out that the functional extinction of the American...
