Chestnut Improvement Network

CIN seedling populations

Chestnut Improvement Network

Gathering growers to standardize on-farm genetic improvement

Chestnut Improvement Network

Ways to get involved – and expand the breeding footprint

Chestnut Improvement Network

CIN breeding scheme and selection criteria

Chestnut Improvement Network

CIN seedling populations

Chestnut Improvement Network

Gathering growers to standardize on-farm genetic improvement

Diverse seedling families from CIN

Where breeding plots meet commercial orchards

  • Balanced seedling design
  • Full-sibling families from controlled pollinations
  • Open-pollinated families from curated pollen cloud
  • Coordinated criteria and evaluations
  • In-network replicated yield trials of breeding selections
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Diverse seedling families
from CIN

This generation's cultivar, next generation's breeding parents

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