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Genetic Studies with the Chestnut Blight Fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica

The chestnut blight fungus is an Ascomycete that preferentially outcrosses, but is capable of selling. Frequency of selling has been tested in American chestnut trees in the field, and in petri dishes in the laboratory. Selfing produces progeny that have different mating types but the same vegetative compatibility type. Vegetative compatibility (v-c) is controlled by several genes and studies have continued to elucidate the genetic relationships between several common v-c types.


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Author(s): Sandra L. Anagnostakis

Publication: American Chestnut Proceedings - 1992