Tag: Genetic Engineering
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The GE American Chestnut – Restoration of a Beloved Species or Trojan Horse for Tree Biotechnology?
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The GE American chestnut is meant to launch us down the slippery slope of tree biotechnology. In the wings, and waiting to follow in that newly forged path are a host of other GE forest tree species, engineered for commercial industrial purposes. Natural forests meanwhile are rapidly declining, even as climate science dictates that protecting…