Erik Carlson: Update on Transgenic (“GMO”) Chestnut
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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The Fungus vs Tree Breeding Mechanism
We're trying to push the fungus back into that type of life style, so it's no longer killing the trees. It doesn't kill the tree. Itoll colonize the tree and then wait for we're trying to a ywe're trying to get both bio diversity and resistance. We're doing out crosses with the pollen from our trees. And that way we're capturing the pytoplasmic genetic diversity from the mother trees. The different trees across appalatia are probably subject to a huge number of different environments right in terms of cold tolerance and all that stuff. So this is a really good mechanism.
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