#americanchestnut — Public Fediverse posts
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I've been researching a cool (and timely) topic for this week's #SolarPunkSunday... #Chestnuts! So many uses! And #AmericanChestnut trees are making a comeback!
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Hacking Trees to Bring Back the American Chestnut - “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern H... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/29/hacking-trees-to-bring-back-the-american-chestnut/ #americanchestnut #bioengineering #christmascarol #greenhacks #transgenic #arbology #chestnut #genomics #science #biology #biotech #botany #tree
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Hacking Trees to Bring Back the American Chestnut https://hackaday.com/2024/11/29/hacking-trees-to-bring-back-the-american-chestnut/ #AmericanChestnut #bioengineering #Christmascarol #greenhacks #transgenic #arbology #chestnut #genomics #Science #biology #biotech #botany #tree
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I almost paid a donation to get these #chestnut seeds last year. Apparently, lucky I waited.
Today's #washingtonpost reports that #maine researchers at #umaine and #universityofnewengland noted mislabled genetically engineered #americanchestnut trees that contained an error not disclosed by #suny
Hopefully, this is a minor setback.
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a gift from my friend in town: an American Chestnut seedling.
American Chestnuts are endangered in the U.S. because of a chestnut blight introduced from East Asia. It is estimated that the blight killed between 3 and 4 billion American chestnut trees in the first half of the 20th century, beginning in 1904.
People are working on a genetically modified strain, but until that gets introduced, i'm happy to try to keep hope alive and grow this.