Erik Carlson: Update on Transgenic (“GMO”) Chestnut
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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Genetically Engineered Trees - Is There a Pushback?
There is some pushback, though, that happens in genetically engineered trees. There's a couple of groups that are specifically anti geneticallyengineered trees. But i haven't had any problems with people going out and trying to dig up plots or chain saw down trees. I think this is the point, is that you start to see these groups losing credibility when they stand in the way of good ideas. This is such an innocuous application that all you're doing is defeating the chemical in the fungus that kills the tree, and you're trying to restore to what it was.
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