by Jules Smith | Dec 14, 2020
Learn about the underlying biology of the blight fungus and what’s being done to make it sick using a virus. Amy Metheny of West Virginia University will give us a crash course on the causal organism of chestnut blight, Cryphonectria parasitica, as well as the...
by Jules Smith | Dec 14, 2020
Learn about the underlying biology of the blight fungus and what’s being done to make it sick using a virus. Amy Metheny of West Virginia University will give us a crash course on the causal organism of chestnut blight, Cryphonectria parasitica, as well as the...
by Jules Smith | Sep 16, 2019 | eSprout
On July 8, TACF staff and volunteers from the southwest branch of the TACF-VA Chapter braved the heat and humidity to inoculate over 3,300 B3F3 trees for this year’s small stem assay (SSA) at TACF’s Meadowview Research Farms. Seeds for the SSA were planted in...