Dan Herms, vice president of research and development at the Davey Institute, talks about the American Chesnut tree - the history, chestnut blight and how scientists are trying to bring the species back to the United States. **In this episode we cover: **
- History of the American Chestnut (0:38)
- Mature specimens of the tree (2:44)
- Bringing the tree back (4:19)
- GMOs (7:57)
- Back crossing (11:27)
- How are the hybrid forests doing? (12:56)
- The future (15:14)
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