[PCA] NEWS: Like-Minded Rivals Race to Bring Back the Chestnut Tree

[Kwong, Olivia]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/us/like-minded-rivals-race-to-bring-back-an-american-icon.html

Like-Minded Rivals Race to Bring Back the Chestnut Tree
By MICHAEL WINES
Published: July 13, 2013

FORCE, Pa. -- Capping decades of research, two groups of plant breeders and
geneticists appear to have arrived independently within reach of the same
arboreal holy grail: creating an American chestnut tree that can, at long
last, withstand the devastating fungus blight that wiped the trees out by
the billions in the first half of the 20th century.

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