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Chestnut blight is a canker disease. Perhaps it is called blight because infected branches and stems die quickly, as in a shoot blight. But it doesn't just infect shoots; it infects branches and stems of any size. ... But chestnut blight is a different story. What it did to American forests is no joking matter. It's a...
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www.forestpathology.org/dis_chestnut.html
www.forestpathology.org/dis_chestnut.html
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Chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica) ; The Cause of the Problem ... However, American chestnut has a great regenerative capacity. Chestnut blight only infects the above-ground parts of trees, causing cankers that enlarge, girdle and kill branches and trunks. The surviving root systems can regenerate to produce...
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www.uoguelph.ca/~chestnut/chestnut_blight.htm
www.uoguelph.ca/~chestnut/chestnut_blight.htm
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Chestnut blight is caused by a fungus which entered our country on Asian nursery stock imported to New York around 1900. Spread by wind, rain, birds and other animals, it enters through cracks or wounds in the bark, multiplies rapidly, making sunken cankers which expand and girdle the stem, killing everything above...
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www.ppws.vt.edu/griffin/blight.html
www.ppws.vt.edu/griffin/blight.html
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Chestnut blight, or chestnut bark disease, is caused by an introduced fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica (Murrill) Barr, (formerly Endothia parasitica [Murrill] Anderson & Anderson). The fungus enters wounds, grows in and under the bark (Fig.
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www.apsnet.org/online/feature/chestnut/
www.apsnet.org/online/feature/chestnut/
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- The chestnut blight fungus has virtually eliminated the American chestnut, as a commercial species, from eastern hardwood forests. ... - No effective control has been developed for chestnut blight, even after decades of intensive research. Current research is targeted toward finding a blightresistant species and the...
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www.fs.fed.us/r8/foresthealth/idotis/diseases/chestnut....
www.fs.fed.us/r8/foresthealth/idotis/diseases/chestnut.html
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Introduced Species Summary Project Chestnut Blight Fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica) ... Common Name: Chestnut blight fungus, or Chestnut bark disease; Scientific Name: Cryphonectria parasitica (Murrill) Barr...
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www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_...
www.columbia.edu/itc/cerc/danoff-burg/invasion_bio/inv_spp_summ/Cryphonectria_parasitica.htm
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Article by Tom Volk on this fungus, a parasite which causes Chestnut Blight and which has devastated the chestnut trees of North America. ... This month's fungus is Cryphonectria parasitica, the cause of Chestnut Blight.
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botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/may98.html
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Board of Control ... Experiment Station Associates ... Licenses and Permits...
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www.ct.gov/caes/site/default.asp
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Chestnut blight was caused by a fungus eventually determined to be Cryphonectria parasitica. It was probably imported to the United States on the Chinese or Japanese species of the tree, which both show resistance to it.
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www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/blighted-hopes
www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/blighted-hopes
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