Blight-resistant American chestnut trees nearing reality

(PhysOrg.com) -- The demise of the American chestnut is one of the great ecological disasters of our time, according to a chestnut expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, who envisions a day in the not-so-distant future when the huge trees will again be growing in American forests.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news147708404.html">Blight-resistant American chestnut trees nearing reality</a></p> <p>(PhysOrg.com) -- The demise of the American chestnut is one of the great ecological disasters of our time, according to a chestnut expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, who envisions a day in the not-so-distant future when the huge trees will again be growing in American forests.</p>