Establishment of American chestnuts (Castanea dentata) bred for blight (Cryphonectria parasitica) resistance: influence of breeding and nursery grading

SL Clark, SE Schlarbaum, AM Saxton, FV Hebard - New Forests, 2016 - Springer
European and American chestnut species (Castanea) have been decimated by exotic
species, most notably chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica), since the early nineteenth …

The first research plantings of third-generation, third-backcross American chestnut (Castanea dentate) in the southeastern United States

SL Clark, SE Schlarbaum, FV Hebard - V International Chestnut …, 2012 - actahort.org
Production of American chestnut (Castanea dentate) resistant to the chestnut blight fungus
(Cryphonectria parasitica) is being conducted currently through traditional breeding and …

Abundance and Frequency of the Asiatic Oak Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and Defoliation on American, Chinese, and Hybrid Chestnut (Castanea)

AE Case, AE Mayfield, SL Clark… - Journal of Insect …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Asiatic oak weevil, Cyrtepistomus castaneus Roelofs (Coleoptera:
Curculionidae), is a nonnative defoliator of trees in the Fagaceae family in the United States …

Interactions among insect defoliation, insecticide treatments, and growth rate in American and hybrid chestnuts

AE Case - 2015 - trace.tennessee.edu
Abstract The American chestnut, Castanea dentata, was once one of the most useful and
abundant canopy trees in eastern North American forests. Over the last 200 years, the …

[PDF][PDF] EaRLY RESULTS OF a CHESTNUT PLaNTING IN EaSTERN KENTUCKY ILLUSTRaTE REINTRODUCTION CHaLLENGES

CC Pinchot, SE Schlarbaum, JA Franklin… - Biennial Southern …, 2012 - srs.fs.usda.gov
This paper examines the first year results from a silvicultural study of American, hybrid
(BC2F3) and Chinese chestnut seedlings (Castanea spp. Mill.) on the Daniel Boone …