We hope that people who get these trees (or nuts) will grow them and when mature, use the nuts from their trees for further restoration. We are passing out non-transgenic nuts right now to act as ...

When local folks who have been working to return the glorious American chestnut tree to our forest gather Saturday in Lebanon to celebrate an anniversary, there will be a big question looming overhead ...

A serious infectious disease nearly wiped out the beloved chestnut tree. Using genetic modification, scientists have found a way to bring it back. Of course, this is controversial because many ...

The application of genetic engineering to food crops is controversial, and rightly so. Critics worry that changing genetics may have harmful, unanticipated effects on food safety and the environment.

This sapling in Georgia’s Tattnall County is one of the first commercially planted genetically modified forest trees in the United States. Credit: Grant Blankenship, GPB News This article is part of ...

Studies of the human microbiome have shown that a person’s genome plays an important role in determining the composition of the microorganisms that cohabitate the body. But what about trees? A team ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. For generations, American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) fed people and ...

If we can make square tomatoes, why not square trees that are ready to chop into lumber? That’s why the concept designers at Draw Me a Sheep have created this “square tree” sculpture – to suggest a ...

Climate change requires human and non-human communities to rise to their fullest potential in order to adapt, survive and thrive. The question of if, and how, some organisms could be helped along the ...

MADISON COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- While you're sitting around your Christmas tree this holiday, researchers in the North Carolina mountains have been working to perfect the next generation of trees ...

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