Exploration of a rare population of Chinese chestnut in North America: stand dynamics, health and genetic relationships
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With the transport of plants around the globe, exotic species can readily spread disease to their native relatives; however, they can also provide genetic resistance to those relatives through hybrid breeding programmes. American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was an abundant tree species in North America until its decimation by introduced chestnut blight. To restore chestnut in North America, efforts are ongoing to test putative blight-resistant hybrids of Castanea dentata and Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima), but little is known about the ecology of C. mollissima. In a forest in northeastern USA in which C. mollissima has become established, we explored questions of stand dynamics, health and genetic relationships of C. mollissima offspring to an adjacent parent orchard. We found that C. mollissima was adapted and randomly distributed among native species in this relatively young forest. The genetics of the C. mollissima population compared with its parents indicated little effect of selection pressure as each of the parent trees contributed at least one offspring. The ease with which this exotic species proliferated calls to question why C. mollissima is rare elsewhere in forests of North America. It is likely that a time window of low animal predation allowed seedlings to establish, and the shallow soil at this site limited the maximum forest canopy height, permitting the characteristically short-statured C. mollissima to avoid suppression. Our results indicate that because C. mollissima exhibited pioneer species characteristics, hybrids between C. mollissima and C. dentata have the potential to be successful pioneer species of future forests in North America, and we challenge the paradigm that exotic tree species are wholly detrimental to native biodiversity. We contend that exotic tree species should be assessed not only by their level of threat to native species, but also by their potential positive impacts on ecosystems via hybrid breeding programmes.
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Chinese chestnut appears to have similar silvics to American chestnut.
“Chinese chestnut appears to have similar silvics to American chestnut, and Chinese chestnuts have been found naturalized in eastern USA forests in analogous environments to those inhabited by American chestnut (Miller et al. 2014).”
From Plantation performance of chestnut hybrids and progenitors on reclaimed Appalachian surface mines (2018) · cites this paper as Miller et al. 2014
Chinese chestnuts have been found naturalized in eastern USA forests in analogous environments to those inhabited by American chestnut.
“Chinese chestnut appears to have similar silvics to American chestnut, and Chinese chestnuts have been found naturalized in eastern USA forests in analogous environments to those inhabited by American chestnut (Miller et al. 2014).”
From Plantation performance of chestnut hybrids and progenitors on reclaimed Appalachian surface mines (2018) · cites this paper as Miller et al. 2014
Miller et al. (2014) reported the establishment of Chinese chestnut in the USA yet indicated that this species had not developed invasive characteristics.
“Miller et al. (2014) reported the establishment of Chinese chestnut in the USA yet indicated that this species had not developed invasive characteristics.”
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- Authors
- Miller, A. C., Woeste, K. E., Anagnostakis, S. L., & Jacobs, D. F.
- Affiliations
- Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
- US Forest Service (US)
- Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (US)
- Corresponding author
- Jacobs, Douglass F.
- Venue
- AoB PLANTS
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2014-01-01
- Volume
- 6
- ISSN
- 2041-2851 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4243075
- OpenAlex
- W2119296445
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 56
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- FWCI
- 1.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
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- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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- PubMed (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- Purdue University
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Keywords
- Castanea mollissima, American chestnut, Castanea dentata, chestnut blight, hybrid breeding, stand dynamics, genetic relatedness, exotic tree species, pioneer species, seedling establishment, predation, forest restoration, genetic resistance
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