Volunteers from the Tennessee Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation use the Eagle Point Railroad to haul the planting crew and trees to the site of a 600-tree silviculture test. Watch this short video to get an idea of the kind of work we do on the Cumberland Plateau to restore the American chestnut!
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For all you chestnut nerds out there, here's a great read!
From the abstract: Over a century after two introduced pathogens decimated American chestnut populations, breeding programs continue to incorporate resistance from Chinese chestnut to recover self-sustaining populations. Due to complex genetics of chestnut blight resistance, it is challenging to obtain trees with sufficient resistance and competitive growth. We developed high quality reference genomes for Chinese and American chestnut and leveraged large disease phenotype and genotype datasets to develop accurate genomic selection.
View the full abstract and download a PDF of the study here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.30.635736v1.article-info
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