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Please tell your friend to report it. If it survived and is still producing seeds, then that has a good chance of having blight resistant genes! There are a lot of people working really hard on bringing the species back, and the benefits could be enormous!


You can always cross your fingers but the destruction was so widespread that it's unlikely that any indigenous immunity existed. If it did we would certainly know by now.

But every surviving chestnut might have resistances to something else, like other diseases, stressors or environmental conditions, and we are going to want to cross breed the resistant plants with every other chestnut we can get our hands on in order to create a robust population. Otherwise you end up planting a bunch of trees that die in the first drought, ice storm, or are only happy in one section of the former range.




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