Bringing Back the Lost American Chestnut Tree

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American chestnut trees were all over the US at the end of the 19th century until the fungus wiped most of them out. Scientists have been trying to figure out ways to bring those endangered American chestnuts back to their former glory. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources https://doi.org/10.1007/s11248-013-9708-5 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01046 https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12879 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/215/4532/466 https://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/chestnut/information/conference-2004/conference/griffin https://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2229-9-51 http://www.jbc.org/content/268/17/12239.full.pdf+html http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.04.004 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-007-0313-

Published 2019-08-01 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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