The rebirth of the American chestnut
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2023
- As the planet changes, researchers are turning to gene editing to help revive struggling plants. NBC's Noah Pransky looks at how this is being used to bring back the American chestnut.
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Sadly, D58 failed. It turned out that they accidentally placed the wheat gene into the wrong chromosome of the American Chestnut. The trees were terribly deformed and not viable. Back to the drawing board. Let's hope that we figure out how to get this right. These mighty trees and others in our forests depend on it.
Stop the cap
I read that some of the trees were doing alright, and there was an argument by some to keep them alive just to continue making observations, but I’m not sure if they’ve allowed that
Buddy, þey just planted some by my house.
Sorry but what!? You used an actual 'th' :o I've never seen someone actually using it haha. Did you modify your keyboard or did you just paste it here with a lot of effort? ^^@@StarsBarsAndCheese
@@florianfelder5265press the letter t on a phone keyboard and you can use it
This is awesome! American Chestnuts were a very important tree for our forefathers. Not only did a mature tree provide an incredible amount of excellent wood but they made so many chestnuts that entire communities used them as the basis of their flour.
We had chestnuts on the California coast on my grandfather’s property. They weren’t huge, but bore spiky covered seeds. They all died within 5 years. It would be great to bring them back.
Those may have been a horse chestnut. Different species.
We should bring back the black walnut trees and native oak trees
This is awesome!! I applaud your efforts. It would be wonderful to see Appalachia covered in American chestnuts again.
I needed this type of hope tonight.
Mr. Hoops may be an American Chestnut expert, but doesn't realize sugar maples aren't tapped in the fall, but very late winter into early spring.
Depends on where you’re at
I had about 12 mature citrus trees on my lot in Central Florida . Greening killed them all. Broke my heart. I had grown those trees for almost two decades. I hope the resistant trees are release to the public soon.
Greening is horrible. I’ve heard about it and is killing the groves.
Advancing Eco Agriculture has worked on greening in Florida and has beaten it on many acres of citrus with nutrients and biology.
I heard it killed the dinosaurs
I’m from Syracuse so proud of our ESF!
Roasted chestnuts are among the most delicious foods you'll ever eat! I'm often stunned when people tell me they've never tried it.
I've never tried it. Are you stunned?
After a lifetime of Nat King Cole I tried them once just this year and was stunned by how unpalatable they were. I threw the rest out to the squirrels who weren’t fussy about them either.
@@dentatusdentatus1592 Yup! You gotta try it!
@@rayray8687 Are you serious?!? Please give roasted chestnuts another try. They're sweet and delicious! You got to find a person who loves them and share the feast. I tried the packaged ones and they are not up to standard. I can never eat enough roasted chestnuts.
Next we need to bring back the American elm.
My parents actually have an American Elm Grove we keep hoping one of them won't get west elm disease and die. Then we would have resistant trees but sadly they keep dying at about 10 years old. Apparently the farm that our home is on now used to have the Elm Grove and when we stopped using it as a field the trees started growing up from either seeds or from the original root structure I'm not sure which.
Now we're losing the ash trees and there is no saving them.
Chinquapin, the chestnut's little cousin, can still be found in eastern forests.
It still dies, just slowly letting it evolve, þe Chestnut has no such luxury.
That would be awesome I remember a hugh chestnut tree at my grandfather's in the early 50's it was beautiful we definitely need more native trees in America
Just an fyi; chestnut trees produce a somewhat steady nut once established, a food source wildlife such as deer & turkeys can thrive on. Unlike oaks which also produce acorns but have tannin and the mast can vary from year to year. A chestnut tree blossom is typically later then oaks thus less susceptible to frost damage.
This makes me happy. Very happy.
Our forest have been devastated. The chestnuts are gone, and so are the elm and the ash. Even the mighty and majestic California redwoods are endangered and in decline. While I'd prefer non-GMO chestnuts, I suppose I'm glad that a variety of techniques are being tried to save these native species from invasive diseases. Selective breeding programs are also being run to breed hardier American chestnuts that can survive the blight. But GMO chestnuts are better than no chestnuts. Where chestnuts thrive, they provide a lot of food for native wildlife, livestock, and people.
Glad we can use science to bring back such an amazing tree!
I don’t know how you expect us to take this piece seriously when one of your "experts" talks about tapping maple trees in the Fall. The sap is collected in the Spring!
He's a Chestnut expert, not maple.
Im an arborist that specializes in removal and clearing as well as PHC..I do anything from planting to keeping healthy down to removal and manage several properties that have young chestnuts growing on the property completely healthy..Last year while doing a week long clearing job I came across several chestnut trees..I immediately marked them and noted to the customer that I will not remove them personally, I would trim but I will not remove them as they are considered a extinct species and most that are growing eventually die..where I live tree species dominance varies by area, some woods might be all cherry and maple and 5 miles away you got oak hickory with a bit of maple its not like your walking in the woods and finding every species, the customers I have with chestnuts live right next door and share the same massive stretch of woods that is heavily cottonwood and im talking huge cottonwoods so its kinda unique to find a chestnut hidden in the mix and these trees are growing fine yet nowhere else in my work area have I ever seen one...on a side note i like how he compares to maples dying out...open your eyes them maples are usually the most rotted tree and most maple removals i have done was a hollow rotted out shell..same thing with woods full of cherry dying out..leave nature alone and let it do its thing..
I am also a certified arborist through the international society of arboriculture and I feel the same way they should not be doing any genetic modification of these trees because nature has its own ways of becoming immune to different kinds of fungus diseases/cankers. They are doing God's work and we do not need GMO chestnuts in our nation. I truly think it may backfire.
@@daveooooo you know its gonna backfire but then again its probably gonna give our future tree men and women a whole new generation of tree problems..just like the 80s with dutch elm and the 90/2000s with the eab and pine bore..
@@manicorganic6748 yes I agree.
If yall were actually good arborists you would know that the blight was accidentally introduced by humans in the first place. We are not messing with nature- we're trying to fix our mistakes.
This type of immunization is revolutionary and could save different species, animals, and even humans. But all you can do is sit there on your high horses, with your "Don't mess with mother nature caps", touting that not interfering will "allow" nature, a partially non-regulating force, to thrive. You are naive to the true human effects and the fact that scientists and discoveries like this is part of the only thing holding bad human influence on natural systems at bay.
Sit there and clap when species goes extinct. That's mother nature, after all. I'll continue to try and do something about it.
Awesome work man. I just returned to the US after deveral years abroad and I want to start an invasive tree removal servicd. Im in NY and there are "tree of heaven" everywhere, which also happen to be a favorite food source for the growing lantern fly pest. I'd specialize in removing tree of heaven and Bradford Pears as they are both invasive from Asia. Bradford pears often planted as ornamental species but they seem to be dying off by some blight en masse in my area and I think it would be a good time to remove them. I'd offer to remove and also plant a native tree at the same time. I have no business plan really, just go drive sround and knock on doors when I see an invasive on someone's property and just get to work with my chainsaw and shovel.
Finally, some real news from the Legacy Networks. Thank you.
This is awesome..I’m ready to replant them on my property!!
Þey recently planted some near my home.
We can't let any of our trees species go away. They are all too important to let disappear. We need all of them.
FYI it wasn't just the blight that took out the chestnuts. When the blight was noticed authorization was given to loggers to take down as much of the chestnuts as they wanted since they presumed they were gonna die anyway. So humans went after the chestnut tress as the blight attacked them too. Any blight resistant chestnut trees were chopped down by humans so they never were able to naturally evolve resistance....
They were cut down to prevent the spread to the South.
He’s very optimistic that 18 year olds in the future will play outside
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Looking forward to eating roasted American chestnuts one day. Used to eat them whenever I could when I lived in the UK. They're fun to play conkers with too.
I remember hearing stories of the old chestnuts ....that's a chestnut
Those roasted chestnuts look so good woof
I've been waiting for this .we bake them for a snack in winter.
This is incredible
Maple syrup production is done in the spring
Definitely smooth song to go along with a tree.
Rebirth of the American Chestnut is my favorite BYRDS album!
Don't blame westerners, it was one man that imported the blight.
This method will be the future.
wow that's amazing
Hoooray US Chestnuts !!!
Most of the beautiful trim in the old Victorian homes were made of chestnut wood. It is truly a shame how developers have torn them down without considering all that went into building them. Having the chestnut trees back will do good on a lot of levels, historical restoration to be one of them!
There are some large chestnut trees growing in the Yakima valley of Washington. They seem healthy enough.
As long as they’re a few miles away from an infected tree, they should survive.
I am near Jefferson Oregon, I have recently found a pair of American Chestnut trees near me. The larger of the two is 20’ in diameter. I collected 350 nuts off the ground yesterday in about 10 minutes. I am sending them to a Chestnut conservation organization this week.
But are they true American chestnuts? Or are they hybrids
@@ShigekiHizashi How do you tell when they are over 40 feet tall?
We so badly need these to come back. I live in canada in-between london and windsor. There are a few here. The only one ive seen is at a nudist camp i was doing tree work at.
i guess the solution to the fungus is nudity
@@evanbecraft8201 seems like it. These folks make me laugh. I seen them run a saw mill with just gloves , ear muffs eye protection and boots. Thats it.
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Should have mentioned the two breeds of Banana trees we have for eating. One went extinct, the other is going extinct.
Technically it's not extinct it's just very rare. It also can't be grown commercially anymore because of the disease. You can actually buy them if you're willing to spend a lot of money from the few places that they've been protected from the disease.
Thank god...
I remember the chestnut 🌰 down in Alabama in the early 1950s, that disease came through and wiped them out... 😢
they was European chestnuts.
@@diegojines-us9pc What are speaking about. ??
@@jet4926just sayin the american chestnut wasnt around in 1950.
I always thought they grew slow!
The scientists are pollinating wild chestnut trees with Darling58. How could that wild ones have grown to maturity? Were they lucky to grow just old enough to produce offspring before they themselves succumb to fungus? Because I see in this news that to this day, young chestnuts can be found here and there, meaning they had mature parents.
I suspect it's like my parents Elm Grove they come up, they grow to a certain degree of maturity which is still pretty big before they get sick with west elm disease and eventually die we keep hoping one of them will not get it and will eventually have resistant trees.
American chestnut, along with a ton of other species of trees, can reproduce via stump sprouts and root suckers. If you walk through the woods and see a tree that was cut down and a bunch of new leaves coming out of the bottom, that’s technically offspring. When trees are wounded or dying they can shoot up new sprouts as a response. The young chestnuts you see in the woods are all young because their parent tree has long died, and it’s a continuous cycle of being young, succumbing to blight, and then shooting up new sprouts. Since it’s from the same parent tree they have the same genes and are still susceptible.
No the new ones are just the roots sending up shoots but every once in a while one reaches maturity. The ones they pollinated are from the east coast isolated from the blight usually on farms.
The roots survive, but the suckers don't. You are seeing old trees sending up suckers, the top growth gets killed by fungus over and over again. The suckers are keeping the roots alive but just barely.
I see the small sapling shoots all over the place where a mature chestnut had fallen many years ago. None of them grow very big before they too succumb to the disease
MY DARLING
A scientist can observe that one is dead but has no idea when one will die .
If there is a time machine, we need to stop the Chinese chestnut tree from being brought here, as well as Covid.
Tree based food is the best for health, health of the nature!!!
I'm reading the "Foundation" series by Isaac Asimov. The Galactic Empire is falling apart and the hero Hari Seldon, is trying to work out mathematics to find ways to save it. What would be the best decisions?
As sometimes happens the best sci fi predicts our own future. We need to be making the best decisions now to save our planet.
Should increase growth rate genetics too & implant beneficial fungi/bacteria/phages/microbiome in the dirt its planted in.
Amen ❤❤❤
I guess the keyword is no longer *'ONCE'*
My Chestnut just broke and crashed in my yard Sat July 31 and I have tons of baby sprouts!!! Come and take what you want!! It was very tall and very old!!
I tried to grow an American chestnut and it snapped and splintered about 3 years ago. Fungus got it too. I was so sad.
What stocks are tied to this development?
Renaissance of Deez Nuts
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Maple trees are tapped in the SPRING
How do I get one of these seeds??
i spent my life. listening to new chance at savin these trees. and guest what. they all failed. this is just the latest.
@@diegojines-us9pcÞey are planting þem near me now.
American Chestnut Foundation dropping Darling 58 support
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Tapping maples in fall?
We Need Protect Habitat Law
As long as Geoengineering continues this tree will not survive nor will any other tree. They are all dying
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I have an original tree on my property.
We Need Protect Habitat Law👍
Praise God!
Thanks for sharing this
...and what hand does monsanto play in this type of research? because you can certainly bet they'll have a hand in reaping the benefits
There is no Monsanto dealings in the ACF from my research at least.
Not all scientists work for Monsanto.
Monsanto doesnt even exist anymore
This is being maintained by the researchers in a public trust so as many people have access to it as possible.
My beef is that if you have to modify a chestnut 🌰 in order to get a chestnut tree makes me feel it won’t be a true chestnut. I have a true American chestnut tree not one but 3 and I will say it something you don’t forget the taste of it’s amazing they are small but worth fighting over. They are resilient trees and feel they can make a comeback if planted right and treated in a well sterile environment with right soil and temp. But hey you do you I will treasure my food even more.
I don't think you understand whats going on. The chestnut blight spreads by spores that can be picked up by wind and once in the air, rain can also move it around. Moment the spores come in contact with an American Chestnut tree, it's pretty much a death sentence unless it's blight resistant, which gives it a fighting chance.
It's not about "planting them right" or in a "sterile environment", these are big trees, it's about finding blight resistant trees naturally (takes a lot of time and luck) or through biotech means (much faster).
I'd be happy to take some nuts so I can plant and grow some seedlings.
All surviving American chestnut trees eventually die with the blight. That’s why they were wiped out to virtual extinction. There is no “sterile” environment out in a forest or planting method that can save them from this disease.
Really not a fan of artificially created trees. Years of selective breeding with strong and resistant individuals is great but once it gets to lab suits,chemicals and needles its pretty much an artificial organism at this point
One gene from anoþer plant to þe endangered plant isn't very artificial but I understand your hesitancy.
FUND THIS NOT WAR
What I'm sayin
No Chocolate?
What has Billy Gates been up to?
VRIL ALERT ‼️
makes NO sense to me - thousands of American chestnut exist yet they cannot propagate them ?
A disiese from China killed most, þe ones left are hybrids, isolated trees, or in labs
Bangladesh news
When you genetically modify the American chestnut tree
it's no longer an American chestnut tree.
It's a weird man-made mutant tree 🤯
yes when they genetically modify a cancer free human it wont be human either.
How ignorant. This happens in nature all the time, we've just done what nature already does in a more directed manner. Theres nothing unusual or unnatural about it and the resulting tree makes the exact same fruit as the original (or it wouldn't be acceptable for the project)
The planet is no longer pure; humans are responsible for this, humans are attempting to remedy it.
@@okankyotoignorant😂
So using gene editing technology to take a gene from wheat and put it in a tree is natural?
So when Monsanto uses gene editing technology to put glyphosate in wheat is that natural?🤦🏼♂️
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Ignorance is bliss 🤪
hehehe they said nut
The American chestnut is being reborn….as a citrus?
What?
Wow, how does she get away with theft? Why would anyone allow her in their home?
GMO engineered chestnuts are just another tech solution that will bring new problems for Chestnut trees. This is a propaganda piece in my opinion.
just makes me think of the bradford pear situation...created a new pear tree for perfect landscape value only for it to become the worst tree in history and has literally made more tree guys rich than emerald ash bore did..
They just added one gene that makes antiacid when the blight releases its toxins. What about that causes problems?
Yes, new problem is that people will eat chestnuts instead of wheat. Wheat farmers might complain.
@@StarsBarsAndCheeseFunny how I had to jump through the Newest First hoop to see your comment. The Al Gore Rhythm must not like it.
@@knuckledraggingneanderthal720 I've been seeing that a lot where is says it has 2 of 3 replies but only shows one, like shadow banning
You just had to bring climate change doom and gloom into this otherwise happy story didn't you? Gotta keep people scared, can't have anyone feel hope.
Why do GMO trees?
Didn’t I JUST see that someone found in a forest an American chestnut tree growing without any sign of blight, naturally resistant??
Stop the danger-sci!
Because we would like to have a billion trees not just one. Grow up. Stop being afraid of science you bible thumper.
@@AlmaVasquezjrBlaming þe Bible for dumbasses is just as ignorant as þis guy calling Chestnuts wiþ one extra gene "frankentrees".
vote democrat if you want more encampments in your neighborhood.
I agree but this video is about trees. I'm confused.
Vote Democrat if you want to keep social security.
Deodorant cost 8 bucks , F the chestnuts.
What do chestnuts have to do with deodorant?
I just bought deodorant and it was $3.50.
Maybe the chestnut flavored deodorant is more expensive.
@@MrFancyFingers Lol! I thought I was buying the expensive stuff but even mine is only $4.50.
They shouldn't be putting genetically modified trees into the woods.
Why not? Life is made of genetics. Do you want life or just a bunch of dead rocks?
It’s the only way to restore our native forests
@@mrparts - not. They're already working on the non GMO version by cross breeding with an asia species that is not susceptible to the fungus. Then they take that and back cross it with another american chestnut, and ensure the gene responsible for the enzyme that participates in the creation of the antifungal is still there in the new cross. Then, rinse and repeat. Keep doing the same until almost all of the characteristics are like the original american chestnut, except that it still remains fungus resistant because you're ensuring that characteristic with each new hybrid. Nature creates much more stable DNA.
@@jeffg4686 the 15/16 American\ Chinese cross is genetic modification, plus you end up with 30-40 thousand genes that are Chinese and will express themselves in the next generation.
@@jeffg4686And þe hybrid is short wiþ small fruit, þus not filling þe same ecological niche.
is that why its so slow? they are women scientists?
Þe trees grow fast for trees, as in 3 years to maturity and 20 to full size iirc.
Stopped watching at the mention of the climate change hoax…