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2024 Tennessee Chapter Pollination Workshop
The 2024 Tennessee Chapter Pollination Workshop was held on June 8 to great success, bringing together 22 enthusiastic volunteers for a day of hands-on learning at the Tennessee Tech Orchard. Established in 2005 using the direct seed planting method, the TTU backcross...
TN-TACF Middle Tennessee Pollination Workshop
The Tennessee Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation held a very successful one-day pollination workshop on Saturday 10 June 2023 at the beautiful Chestnut Ridge Orchard in Middle Tennessee. The workshop was a hands-on opportunity to learn and practice the...
Potential Chestnut Orchard Site Examined
On April 30, Sandy showed Jack and me her land which she hopes will become a chestnut orchard site. We dug a soil sample and it looked dark and rich in organic matter and It was not overly wet after the recent heavy rains. I concluded that the site has good potential...
Arbor Day Foundation Honors The American Chestnut Foundation with Public Awareness of Trees Award
https://youtu.be/yrFEpuBP8L4 This spring, The American Chestnut Foundation® (TACF) was presented the 2014 Public Awareness of Trees award from the Arbor Day Foundation. The award recognized TACF for elevating the public awareness and understanding of the importance of...
Planting Chestnut is Like Icing on a Birthday Cake
My wife Paula asked me what I would like to do on my birthday on this past Saturday. I suggested helping to restore the American chestnut, and she was all in. Having completed one generation of...
This Is How We Roll
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...
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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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