Resurrecting The Great American Chestnut Tree

Talking Trees with Davey Tree · Feb 15, 2024 · 18m

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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