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Science 29 January 1982:
Vol. 215. no. 4532, pp. 466 - 471
DOI: 10.1126/science.215.4532.466
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Biological Control of Chestnut Blight

Sandra L. Anagnostakis 1

1 Assistant Scientist in the Department of Plant Pathology and Botany at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven 06504

After 77 years of being attacked by the chestnut blight fungus, American chestnut trees continue to sprout from gradually declining root systems. The blight fungus in Italy is now associated with virus-like agents that limit its pathogenicity, and attempts have been made to introduce these controlling agents into the blight fungus in the United States. If a way can be found to help the spread here of strains of the fungus with controlling agents, it may be possible to save the American chestnut trees in our eastern forests.


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