American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) - A Great American Tree ...

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Page 1 and 2: American Chestnut (Castanea dentata
Page 3 and 4: Chestnut flowering in early summer
Page 5 and 6: Domain - EukaryaKingdom - PlantaePh
Page 7 and 8: Evolutionary Migration Pathway - Ca
Page 9 and 10: Twigs and Buds,Left - Right:America
Page 12 and 13: Chestnuts make nice shade trees.
Page 14 and 15: Chestnut was a versatile hardwood q
Page 16: AbrahamLincoln“Fence Splitter”
Page 19 and 20: Many good foods can be made with ch
Page 21: Late 1800’s -Blight PandemicBegan
Page 24 and 25: Ridges dominated by chestnut were d
Page 28 and 29: Point ofEntrySwellingCankerSunken C
Page 30 and 31: Chestnut survives by growing slowly
Page 32 and 33: Surviving C. dentataRolling RidgeFo
Page 34 and 35: Jim Hill‟s Tree (#6546)Height 85
Page 36 and 37: Uninfected BarkIs this resistanceor
Page 38 and 39: Anastomosis:fusion of fungalhyphae
Page 40 and 41: The American Chestnut Foundation -
Page 42 and 43: Americanchestnutgrows tall andstrai
Page 44 and 45: RR x rr = Rr (F 1 )Rr x rr = Rr and
Page 46 and 47: What are we looking for in ourbackc
Page 48 and 49: Controlled PollinationChestnuts are
Page 50 and 51: Bisexual Catkins - Both Female and
Page 52 and 53: Receptive flowers arefertilized wit
Page 54 and 55: Burs become heavy in late summer.
Page 56 and 57: Left: pollinated bur.Right: Un-poll
Page 58 and 59: Resistance: ability to limit the sp
Page 60 and 61: Paired Inoculations1 year post-inoc
Page 62 and 63: …but trees withenough blight resi
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