NEW YORK, Calif., April 16 (UPI) -- The once-ubiquitous American chestnut tree, virtually wiped out by a fungus, will return to New York in an effort to re-establish the species, scientists said.
Researchers from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse said they would plant 10 genetically modified American chestnut trees at a test site in The New York Botanical Garden in hopes of revealing a variety of American chestnut that can survive a blight attack caused by the pathogenic fungus that first attacked chestnut trees 100 years ago.