Participants included TACF’s Jamie Van Clief, Clemson University Professor Dr. Haiying Liang and four of her PhD students Sky, Jay, Roger and Amanda, plus Jamie’s summer intern, Mateo Craven, a student from Warren Wilson College.
What was the purpose of the pollinations at the Chestnut Return Farm? Jamie said, “We were making crosses on genomic selected trees for the first generation of the Recurrent Genomic Selection for both PRR and blight resistance!”
Intern Mateo Craven inspects chestnut branches.
Jamie Van Clief giving instructions for pollination of mature female flowers.
Students actively pollinating female chestnut flowers in the Chestnut Return Orchard.
