Original upload date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:25:15 GMT
Billions of American Chestnut trees used to grow in America—and then a fungal blight spread throughout its native range. By the 21st century, this population had all but disappeared.
Using revolution
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ary technology, the American Chestnut Research & Restoration Project aims to resuscitate the Castanea dentata. In this Stories of Impact video, William A. Powell (SUNY ESF) and Rex Mann (The American Chestnut Foundation) discuss the American chestnut and their goal of restoring the iconic tree to its former glory. Supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, this first-of-its-kind project is engineering the blight-resistant Darling 58 (D58) American chestnut tree and reintroducing it to its native habitat.
Learn more: https://www.esf.edu/chestnut/about.asp
