As the planet changes, researchers are turning to gene editing to help revive struggling plants. NBC’s Noah Pransky looks at how this is being used to bring back the American chestnut.
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No Chocolate?
the 1 person who disliked this is a loser
Should have mentioned the two breeds of Banana trees we have for eating. One went extinct, the other is going extinct.
We Need Protect Habitat Law👍
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This is awesome! American Chestnuts were a very important tree for our forefathers. Not only did a mature tree provide an incredible amount of excellent wood but they made so many chestnuts that entire communities used them as the basis of their flour.
My beef is that if you have to modify a chestnut 🌰 in order to get a chestnut tree makes me feel it won’t be a true chestnut. I have a true American chestnut tree not one but 3 and I will say it something you don’t forget the taste of it’s amazing they are small but worth fighting over. They are resilient trees and feel they can make a comeback if planted right and treated in a well sterile environment with right soil and temp. But hey you do you I will treasure my food even more.
The scientists are pollinating wild chestnut trees with Darling58. How could that wild ones have grown to maturity? Were they lucky to grow just old enough to produce offspring before they themselves succumb to fungus? Because I see in this news that to this day, young chestnuts can be found here and there, meaning they had mature parents.
I remember hearing stories of the old chestnuts ….that's a chestnut
I needed this type of hope tonight.
Im an arborist that specializes in removal and clearing as well as PHC..I do anything from planting to keeping healthy down to removal and manage several properties that have young chestnuts growing on the property completely healthy..Last year while doing a week long clearing job I came across several chestnut trees..I immediately marked them and noted to the customer that I will not remove them personally, I would trim but I will not remove them as they are considered a extinct species and most that are growing eventually die..where I live tree species dominance varies by area, some woods might be all cherry and maple and 5 miles away you got oak hickory with a bit of maple its not like your walking in the woods and finding every species, the customers I have with chestnuts live right next door and share the same massive stretch of woods that is heavily cottonwood and im talking huge cottonwoods so its kinda unique to find a chestnut hidden in the mix and these trees are growing fine yet nowhere else in my work area have I ever seen one…on a side note i like how he compares to maples dying out…open your eyes them maples are usually the most rotted tree and most maple removals i have done was a hollow rotted out shell..same thing with woods full of cherry dying out..leave nature alone and let it do its thing..
This makes me happy. Very happy.
Looking forward to eating roasted American chestnuts one day. Used to eat them whenever I could when I lived in the UK. They're fun to play conkers with too.
Deodorant cost 8 bucks , F the chestnuts.
GMO engineered chestnuts are just another tech solution that will bring new problems for Chestnut trees. This is a propaganda piece in my opinion.
Rebirth of the American Chestnut is my favorite BYRDS album!
Definitely smooth song to go along with a tree.
Roasted chestnuts are among the most delicious foods you'll ever eat! I'm often stunned when people tell me they've never tried it.
That would be awesome I remember a hugh chestnut tree at my grandfather's in the early 50's it was beautiful we definitely need more native trees in America
Mr. Hoops may be an American Chestnut expert, but doesn't realize sugar maples aren't tapped in the fall, but very late winter into early spring.
Next we need to bring back the American elm.
MY DARLING
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Scientists saved us from the covid virus, a lot of Americans just wouldn’t accept that. They are trying to save us from climate change but many of the people that swore dinosaurs weren’t real are the same ones that won’t accept that. I wish someone would remind Americans when those people didn’t believe in dinosaurs and they were wrong then and they are wrong now.
Tree based food is the best for health, health of the nature!!!
Should increase growth rate genetics too & implant beneficial fungi/bacteria/phages/microbiome in the dirt its planted in.
I'm reading the "Foundation" series by Isaac Asimov. The Galactic Empire is falling apart and the hero Hari Seldon, is trying to work out mathematics to find ways to save it. What would be the best decisions?
As sometimes happens the best sci fi predicts our own future. We need to be making the best decisions now to save our planet.