Releasing the Biotech Blight Resistant Chestnut - Erik Carlson
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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The American Chestnut
A fungus called Chrythonaxia paracetica or this common name is just the chest, not blight fungus. It comes from Asia and lives mostly as a sappratrophic fungus which means it kind of colonizes the trees and waits for them to die and then consumes their dead tissue. In weakened trees or in non-resistant trees, it will actually go ahead and kill the tree and then consume it rather than waiting for it to die from other causes. So I was always surprised to learn about this part of it.
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