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In August 2010 we learned that TCD was confirmed present in an urban area in Tennessee. This is the first time the disease has been documented among the native black walnut population in the eastern United States. With our thousands of black walnut trees at our various research locations, we have a great opportunity to study and track this disease complex. It is urgent that we work with other institutions to do what we can to prevent the black walnut from going the way of the American Chestnut. |
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This year most of the apricot crop in northern Utah was destroyed by the cold spring weather we experienced. However, the apricot trees in our Thatcher, Utah, and Dayton, Idaho, research locations are producing fruit. In fact, the trees at the Dayton field site produced a second bloom and should produce fruit in late September or early October. IPPFBE obtained the germplasm for these apricot trees from Uzbekistan and other countries in Central Asia.
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IPPFBE is a non-profit organization. Your donation will help us expand the scope of our operations and allow us to train and hire additional plant breeders, expand our selection of germplasm, and acquire additional research locations across the globe. You can make a contribution online through PayPal by using the following link:
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Our mission is to select and improve underutilized perennial plants for the production of food, timber, and energy and the preservation and enhancement of soil for the benefit of all. |
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 Central Asian Apricots from the Thatcher Research Location Improving Perennial Plants for Food and Bioenergy (IPPFBE) is non-profit (501.c.3) corporation. We believe that there is great unexploited potential to develop perennial crops for the sustainable production of food and bioenergy on marginal cropland, steep or sloping range, or on fragile soils—land that is currently unproductive. We are breeding many different types of trees, shrubs, and grasses in our research locations, selecting for high yield crops that are frost-resistant, drought-tolerant, and disease-resistant. Our results have been very encouraging and we move ahead with enthusiasm. We hold that perennial trees, shrubs, grasses, legumes, and forbs adapted to land not suitable for sustainable production of cultivated annual crops, such as corn, wheat, or rice, will produce much of the added food, timber, fuel, and fiber needed to feed, house, and supply energy to the world’s poor and hungry.
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The Chairman and President of IPPFBE recently wrote an article for the Nutshell, the newsletter for NNGA. Please click on the following link to see the full article.
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