My comments above were about the initial infection around 1904 not today's current work. There is a lot of current work being done with asian x american hybrids and gene splicing using the fungal resistance in oats and probably anything else that might work. Nothing says monoculture better than...
I heard that work was being done, using asian stock, to try and improve the quality of the nuts. It is really hard to find facts to support this because there were some big names involved so I think that some of the history has been sanitized. Being fair though, the american chestnut was on...
Trying to improve them is what caused the initial problem. Science and it's wonders have never been the problem, it is man's total inability in using them responsibly that is.
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