marcusregulus t1_izeixui wrote
Reply to comment by thexylom in A recent study and a project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that chestnut agroforestry systems improved soil health and increased soil carbon sequestration in both the short term and the long term by thexylom
The American chestnut is the native species, and as such, has adapted characteristics enabling it to be a competitive forest tree (tall and straight, climate adaptations etc.) that the Chinese tree somewhat lacks. The blight resistant American chestnut tree under development by TACF and SUNY is a transgenic organism. Meaning that a gene from wheat has been inserted (oxalate oxidase.)
We eat this gene in massive quantities every day, but you know how some people are about transgenic technology.
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