Latest article on the two prongs of the efforts to restore Chestnut trees in the U.S.
One is bioengineering the genetic code for blight resistance. The other is hybridization with Chinese Chestnuts, but specifically targeting only the blight resistance genes in an attempt to have the hybrids have the highest possible content of American Chestnut DNA.
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