The trees in the UTC nursery are growing very well this season. There are currently about 2,000 trees growing in 2-gallon containers. Nuts were planted directly into the containers in February 2013. UTC student, Anash Parmar, who is 5′ 4″ tall, has been helping take care of the seedlings this year
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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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