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Where are we on bringing back chestnut trees with genetic engineering?
by bilsbie 4y ago
Where are we on bringing back chestnut trees with genetic engineering?
- a2tech 4y agoThe article briefly mentions that project and how its been caught up in government regulations for years, whereas this project was somehow able to side step all that (ie in SV tradition they just ignored it).
- ab_goat 4y agoNot exactly genetic engineering, but there's actually a huge community dedicated to bringing back the American chestnut. I participated in an orchard planting of 432 seedlings last year in MA. https://acf.org/ https://acf.org/
- filoeleven 4y agoThe Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t podcast talked in-depth with one person on that project in 2022. In short, they have promising results, and they’re moving slowly forward. https://www.spreaker.com/user/16676611/restoring-the-american-chestnut https://www.spreaker.com/user/16676611/restoring-the-america...
- Ancapistani 4y agoI’m looking forward to planting my first Ozark Chinquapin this spring - the seedling is in my refrigerator right now, happily chillin’ out in a Ziplock baggie of moist soil. It’s not “engineered” in the colloquial sense, though - it’s the descendant of hand-selected trees that didn’t succumb to the blight.