When I saw the headline, I expected this article would be about Jokichi Takamine, a biotechnology pioneer from Japan who paid for the 2000 sakura trees donated

When I saw the headline, I expected this article would be about Jokichi Takamine, a biotechnology pioneer from Japan who paid for the 2000 sakura trees donated to DC by the governor of Tokyo. I wasn't aware of the Fairchild/Marlatt stories, so it's interesting to see how the multiple historical threads converge. https://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/mdd/v04/i12/html/12timeline.html https://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/mdd/v04/i12/html/12ti...