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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2008
W. Alfred Dozier, Jr., Opelika, AL (US);
Joseph Daniel Norton, Auburn, AL (US);
Curtis J. Hansen, Opelika, AL (US);
W. Alfred Dozier, Jr., Opelika, AL (US);
Joseph Daniel Norton, Auburn, AL (US);
Curtis J. Hansen, Opelika, AL (US);
Auburn University, Auburn, AL (US);
Abstract
'AU Buck IV' is a new and distinct Chinese chestnut cultivar that is blight resistant, precocious and an annual bearer. It produces a medium to heavy crop load each year and a large sized nut. Nut drop begins about October 10 and continues for a 5-6 week period. A high percentage of nuts produced drop during the first 4 weeks of the period that nuts drop from this cultivar. 'AU Buck IV' is a small tree that is broadly elliptic in shape with high, upright to spreading and diffuse branches that was 8.23 meters tall with a canopy covering an area of 30.19 square meters at 15 years old. 'AU Buck IV' is the fourth cultivar to mature and drop nuts in a series of four Chinese chestnut cultivars that will provide for a continuous nut drop of a high energy wildlife food source from late August through mid-to-late November.