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Scientists hope genetic engineering can revive the American chestnut tree Reuters 1 hr ago April 22 (Reuters) - A day before Earth Day, retired forester Rex Mann watched as scientists signed an agreement with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina to allow for the eventual planting of genetically engineered American chestnut trees on tribal land. Mann, who has heard countless stories about the American chestnut tree that once dominated the Appalachia region, was emotional as h...

Using science to bring back iconic American chestnut trees Using science to bring back iconic American chestnut trees By Michele S. Byers “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose …” By the time those famous lyrics were penned in 1945, most of the magnificent American chestnut forests in the eastern United States were gone, the victims of a blight that would eventually kill some four billion trees. In today’s terms, it would be a pandemic … one far more dea...