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The American Chestnut Project
An additional step, regeneration, is needed for embryo tissue culture. To enhance blight resistance in the American chestnut tree, we are studying several gene products, regulatory regions of genes to ...
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Hacking Trees To Bring Back The American Chestnut
While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...
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The Return of the American Chestnut Tree in New York
The American Chestnut was more than just a tree; it was a cornerstone of the eastern forests. Growing up to 100 feet tall, ...
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For North Attleboro man, bringing the American chestnut tree back is a local effort
Aug 17, 2024 Aug 17, 2024 Updated Aug 18, 2024 The American chestnut tree was one of the most populous and mighty trees in eastern North America before a blight over the past century brought it to ...
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The American Chestnut Project
Several decades later, we are seeking government approval to begin distributing the first blight-tolerant transgenic American chestnut. These trees were produced by inserting a gene called oxalate ...