Chestnut trees once dominated the forests of the eastern US, until a blight imported…

https://www.popsci.com/transgenic-chestnuts-roasting-open-fire/

Chestnut trees once dominated the forests of the eastern US, until a blight imported from Asia devastated them early last century. Its continued presence has prevented them from recovering. Now there's a project to repair the damage to the chestnut forests by inserting a gene from wheat that makes the trees resistant to the blight.

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