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  • A bark fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica), the causative agent of a disease known as chestnut blight and accidentally introduced into North America from Asia early in the 20th century, almost caused the tree become extinct.

    Archive 2009-08-01 AYDIN 2009

  • A bark fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica), the causative agent of a disease known as chestnut blight and accidentally introduced into North America from Asia early in the 20th century, almost caused the tree become extinct.

    American chestnut tree with chestnut blight AYDIN 2009

  • In the early 1900's the spread of the chestnut blight, caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica, resulted in widespread loss of chestnut from the forest community.

    Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests 2008

  • The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was a dominant canopy species, but was extirpated at the turn of the century by the introduced chestnut blight fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica).

    Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests 2008

  • Eucalyptus pellita is moderately resistant to the stem canker Cryphonectria cubensis (Bruner) Hodges.

    Chapter 5 1983

  • Cryphonectria cubensis, Bothryosphaeria spp. and Endothia gyrosa (Old and Davison, 2000).

    Science Blog - Science news straight from the source 2009

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  • Cryphonectria is the genus of the Asian mildew (phylum Ascomycota) that causes Chestnut Blight.

    March 5, 2016