Resurrecting The Great American Chestnut Tree

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Dan Herms, vice president of research and development at the Davey Institute, talks about the American Chesnut tree - the history, chestnut blight and how scientists are trying to bring the species back to the United States.
In this episode we cover:

History of the American Chestnut (0:38)
Mature specimens of the tree (2:44)
Bringing the tree back (4:19)
GMOs (7:57)
Back crossing (11:27)
How are the hybrid forests doing? (12:56)
The future (15:14)

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