David - fascinating as always. But a wrong turn about GE American chestnut. I have been a member of TACF, the American Chestnut Foundation, since it founding, in its effort to restore the sublime and productive American Chestnut wiped out by chestnut blight. Over 25 years thet have develops many possibilities but the best in my memory is a clone with a tiny additional gene which allow it to repel the blight. The feat of GE is friendly in this case. Check out the TACF website. These are not corporatists gluttons but patient foresters and naturalists doing the work God used to do to bring back the icing and super-productive tree of the eastern forests, fro its nuts to its wood to its shade.
David - fascinating as always. But a wrong turn about GE American chestnut. I have been a member of TACF, the American Chestnut Foundation, since it founding, in its effort to restore the sublime and productive American Chestnut wiped out by chestnut blight. Over 25 years thet have develops many possibilities but the best in my memory is a clone with a tiny additional gene which allow it to repel the blight. The feat of GE is friendly in this case. Check out the TACF website. These are not corporatists gluttons but patient foresters and naturalists doing the work God used to do to bring back the icing and super-productive tree of the eastern forests, fro its nuts to its wood to its shade.