Addition of a wheat gene increases the blight resistance of American chestnut trees

Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - 07:30 in Biology & Nature

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working collaboratively with scientists funded by The American Chestnut Foundation, have helped confirm that addition of a wheat gene increases the blight resistance of American chestnut trees.

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