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- February 1, 2025.
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- Jared W. Westbrook1,+,
- Joanna Malukiewicz2,3,
- Qian Zhang2,
- Avinash Sreedasyam4,5,
- Jerry W. Jenkins4,
- Vasiliy Lakoba1,
- Sara Fitzsimmons1,
- Jamie Van Clief1,
- Kendra Collins1,
- Stephen Hoy1,
- Cassie Stark1,
- Lake Grabowski1,
- Eric Jenkins1,
- Thomas M. Saielli1,
- Benjamin T. Jarrett1,
- Lucinda J. Wigfield1,
- Lauren M. Kerwien1,
- Ciera Wilbur1,
- Alexander M. Sandercock2,
- J. Hill Craddock1,6,
- Paola Zannini1,6,
- Susanna Keriö7,
- Tetyana Zhebentyayeva8,
- Shenghua Fan8,
- Austin M. Thomas8,
- Albert G. Abbott8,
- C. Dana Nelson8,9,
- Xiaoxia Xia10,
- Melissa Williams4,
- LoriBeth Boston4,
- Christopher Plott4,
- Florian Carle1,11,
- Jack Swatt1,
- Jack Ostroff1,
- Steven N. Jeffers10,
- Kathleen Mckeever9,
- Erica Smith9,
- Thomas J. Ellis12,
- Joseph B. James1,
- Paul Sisco1,
- Andrew Newhouse13,
- Erik Carlson13,
- William A. Powell13,
- Frederick V. Hebard1,
- John Scrivani1,14,
- Caragh Heverly1,
- Martin Cipollini1,15,
- Brian Clark1,
- Eric Evans1,
- Bruce Levine1,16,
- John E. Carlson17,
- David Goodstein5,
- Jane Grimwood4,
- Jeremy Schmutz4,5,
- Jason A. Holliday2 and
- John T. Lovell4,5,+
- 1The American Chestnut Foundation, Asheville, NC 28804, USA
- 2Virginia Tech, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
- 3Research Unit for Evolutionary Immunogenomics, Department of Biology, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
- 4Genome Sequencing Center, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL 35806, USA
- 5US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- 6University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 37403 USA
- 7Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Department of Environmental Science and Forestry, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
- 8USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Forest Health Research & Education Center, Lexington KY 40546
- 9US Forest Service Southern Research Station, Asheville, NC 28806 USA
- 10Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 USA
- 11Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
- 12Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, Doktor-Bohr-Gasse 3 1030 Vienna, Austria
- 13State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Department of Environmental Biology, Syracuse, NY 13210 USA
- 14Virginia Department of Forestry, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA
- 15Berry College, Mt Berry, GA 30149 USA
- 16University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA
- 17Pennsylvania State University, The Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics, University Park, PA 16802
- ↵+To whom correspondence should be addressed: jared.westbrook{at}tacf.org, jlovell{at}hudsonalpha.org