American chestnut trees seeing a revival on Long Island in effort to stop its extinction newsday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A research team s efforts to restore American chestnut trees faces opposition from the American Chestnut Foundation over concerns regarding genetically engineered varieties and naming discrepancies.
The American Chestnut Foundation, a nonprofit where Westbrook is director of science, has poured years of work into a line of chestnuts genetically engineered to endure a deadly disease infecting them, an effort meant to be one of the best hopes for its survival. Then an October visit to a chestnut field in Indiana delivered a blow to that vision.
Lab mixup muddies federal approval for ESF's experimental new American chestnut trees syracuse.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from syracuse.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.