07-01-2016, 04:39 AM
There is a GMO American Chestnut waiting for regulatory approval. A hundred years of "natural" selective breeding with the blight-resistant Chinese variety has failed to produce a blight resistant American hybrid that maintains the desirable American traits.
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-genetically...conic.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-genetically...conic.html