Bridging Science and Nature
"Your gift to TACF’s 2024 Spring Appeal will allow our scientists to make more best x best cross trees available to more sponsor members faster, and fund essential lab equipment that will help our scientists evaluate modified chestnut trees early in the process."
-Lauren Kerwien, TACF Lab Manager at Meadowview Research Farms
Your donation will allow us to...
- Fund bucket-truck rentals for pollination and harvest
- Grow, test, and distribute best x best seed
- Create quantifiable expectations of tree performance using first-hand phenotypic and genotypic data
- Perform first-hand confirmation and evaluation of molecular constructs, especially in the newest transgenic lines
- Refine germplasm conservation priorities and trace wild American chestnut ancestries for members, partners, and other stakeholders
- Independently verify gene and protein expression in all improved disease-resistant varieties
