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There's a GMO chestnut awaiting FDA approval that, with some luck, will be wholly immune to the blight and could prove to be the comeback generations have been
by mynameisash 5y ago
There's a GMO chestnut awaiting FDA approval that, with some luck, will be wholly immune to the blight and could prove to be the comeback generations have been waiting for. Unfortunately, this requires a rather long, painful bureaucratic process.
(On my phone, otherwise I'd find some links.)
- hinkley 5y agoThere are also groups crossing American and Asian chestnuts and then back-crossing them. Some are just exposing the offspring, and I think another is testing for the right genes.