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Erik Carlson: Update on Transgenic (“GMO”) Chestnut

Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta

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How Does the Blight Fungus Kill the Tree?

25% of trees in appalatia were effected, and most of them lost or d all of the above. Yeaswal was a dominant tree species throughout appele asia,. Anda so they set fort a a programme where they were going to breed american chestnut with chinese chestnut  and then do sequential back crossing into America. There are efforts to try to introgress those genes from the chinese species or from the asian species, into the American Chestnut.

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