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THOMAS MOLNAR
Dr. Thomas Molnar's Research Images
Purple leaf ornamnetal hazelnut & green leaf type.
Ornamental hazelnut clusters.
High yield potential of new hybrid hazelnuts.
Ilex x Red Beauty.
Eastern filbert blight lesion - the reason we do not grow hazlenuts commercially in the eastern US.
Dr. Funk and Dr. Tom Molnar.
7 year old hybrid seedlings undergoing evaluation.
Breeding for Eastern Filbert Blight resistance.
Freshly harvested hazelnuts drying.
Evaluating hazelnuts for disease.
Hazelnut stigmas ready for hand pollinating.
New hazelnut selections with large nuts and EFB resistance.
Hazelnut catkins.
Hazlenut pruned to a single trunk.
Advanced generation Hybrid Dogwoods.
Purple leaf ornamental hazelnut with fall color.
Advanced generation holly hybrids.
Some hybrid selections release the nuts from the husk on maturity for easy harvesting.
We screen thousands of hazelnuts for resistance to EFB This picture shows an infected young plant.