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Resurrecting the Chestnut Tree, with Cross-Breeding or Genetic Engineering (ME)

from Concord Monitor, July 20, 2020

Resurrecting the Chestnut Tree, with Cross-Breeding or Genetic Engineering (ME) Concord Monitor, July 20, 2020 A long-running attempt to resurrect the American chestnut tree from the blight that virtually exterminated it — an attempt that can be seen in a Plymouth "germplasm conservation orchard" among other places — is now running on two tracks, one with traditional cross-breeding and one with genetic modification. "We'll be harvesting nuts in late September. Hopefully we're going to have hundreds if not thousands," said Thomas Klak, a professor at the University of New England in Maine who is about to send modified chestnut tree genes into the wild. READ MORE

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