Recovery of American chestnut characteristics following hybridization and backcross breeding to restore blight-ravaged Castanea dentata

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 223, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 439-447

  Diskin, Matthew ^a   Steiner, Kim C ^a   Hebard, Frederick V ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b American Chestnut Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding; Castanea dentata; Castanea mollissima; Disease resistance; Genetics; Species restoration

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ECOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CASTANEA DENTATE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; SPECIES RESTORATION;

FORESTRY;

CAPTIVE BREEDING; CONSERVATION GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

BREEDING; CASTANEA; DISEASES; ECOLOGY; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION;

CASTANEA; CASTANEA DENTATA; CASTANEA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 32344436822     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.12.022     Document Type: Article

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