Genomics offers a faster path to restoring the American chestnut
For more than a century, the American chestnut, once a dominant tree across eastern North American forests, has been devastated by an invasive fungal disease that killed billions of trees in the early 1900s. A study published in Science shows that modern genomic tools can dramatically accelerate res...
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For more than a century, the American chestnut, once a dominant tree across eastern North American forests, has been devastated by an invasive fungal disease that killed billions of trees in the early 1900s. A study published in Science shows that modern genomic tools can dramatically accelerate restoration while preserving the species' ecological identity.
Originally published at Phys.org
