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Clint Morse will lead a workshop on exciting developments of American Chestnut breeding and teach a new testing method. Saturday 26, 3pm- we will do the oxalic acid test together as a group. The test needs to run for 23 hours. Part 2 will be Sunday the 27 at 3pm.
Did you enjoy part 1 and want to learn more about the project? Join us at Clint’s house, please call or email for directions, to learn to read the oxalic test, and get your own test kit. After the test results, visit the new site at Clint’s for a tour of the first of its kind pure American chestnut test orchard. He was recently selected to home 400 seedlings from trees that TACF knows have some level of resistance from around the country. It is really cool! Seven years from now when TACF does the blight test in the orchard, we will know just how much resistance Americans actually have and the myth that there is no resistance in Americans will be put to bed. This is part of a new breeding effort in cooperation with Matthews Forest and the American Chestnut Foundation.
Contact Michelle Pridge, [email protected] or 276-768-0597 for directions and more information

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