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North Carolina State Spin-Off TreeCo to Breed a Better Forest
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NC State University, June 1, 2020
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Like farmers, foresters are facing plagues of invasive pests, increasingly severe storms and changing weather patterns. Unlike farmers, foresters have been slow to adopt new technologies such as genome editing that can mitigate these challenges. And breeding long-lived trees takes significantly longer than breeding annual crops.
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