[HN Gopher] The problem with the Darling 58 genetically modified...
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The problem with the Darling 58 genetically modified chestnut tree
Author : jseliger
Score : 30 points
Date : 2024-05-27 15:50 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| jseliger wrote:
| https://archive.ph/VRCJf
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _Setback in the "American Chestnut Project"_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044498 - Jan 2024 (2
| comments)
|
| _Genetic engineering was meant to save chestnut trees. Then
| there was a mistake._ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38758522 - Dec 2023 (11
| comments)
|
| _America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree"_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38754581 - Dec 2023 (176
| comments)
|
| _TACF is no longer supporting development of D58 American
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| Dec 2023 (58 comments)
|
| _The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?_ -
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|
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| comment)
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| _Biotech chestnut tree poised to restore lost ecosystems and
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| 2022 (1 comment)
|
| _American chestnut tree in Centreville is the 'holy grail' for
| conservationists_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32621570
| - Aug 2022 (155 comments)
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| _American chestnut_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30333498 - Feb 2022 (73
| comments)
|
| _The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441593 - March 2021 (86
| comments)
|
| _Blight wiped out the American chestnut. Scientists are close to
| bringing it back_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21846891
| - Dec 2019 (2 comments)
|
| _American chestnut poised for return to America 's forests_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13855137 - March 2017 (1
| comment)
|
| _American chestnut trees are "technically extinct"_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13478910 - Jan 2017 (120
| comments)
| rulalala wrote:
| IMHO this is a romantic effort, no one can plant a tree species
| at such a scale.
| buescher wrote:
| A country of two million people managed to plant six million
| trees in one day in 2008
|
| https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4AI49U/
| kwhitefoot wrote:
| How many of them survived more than a year?
| woleium wrote:
| i imagine most of them, Macedonia is not such a dangerous
| place to live. /s
| bagels wrote:
| Many of them. Do you have information about it that the
| rest of us don't?
|
| "Fifty million trees planted- the government said in 2014-
| with a success rate of 61% compared to the average European
| planting success rate of 35%."
| CapitalistCartr wrote:
| We routinely plant over a billion trees each year in the USA.
| Tree planting is a huge industry. We have tractor attachments
| that can mass plant some species.
| whartung wrote:
| Sometimes, I just have some view of a city, or whatever, look
| out, quietly scan the horizon and just muse "every tree I see
| was planted by someone". Someone said "here, there will be a
| tree" and it was so.
|
| Small ones, big ones. They're just everywhere.
|
| "See that park over there? Someone put every one of those trees
| in the ground."
|
| Then, as a corollary, one day, a parking lot has several dozen
| trees. Next day, they're all gone. Week later, a bunch of new
| ones are back. Guess the old ones were just getting too big.
|
| Friend recently had to take down a 100 year old tree. Was just
| getting potentially unsafe.
|
| No doubt they'll stick another one in there, and leave it.
| It'll be there when they pass.
| squiffsquiff wrote:
| Long article. ChatGPT summary:
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| The article "The Problem With Darling 58" by Kate Morgan,
| published in New York Magazine, discusses the controversy
| surrounding the efforts to save the American chestnut tree, a
| once-dominant species in Eastern U.S. forests that was devastated
| by a fungal blight in the early 20th century.
|
| The American Chestnut Foundation and scientists have been working
| on different methods to restore the species. One method involved
| breeding programs, while another, led by geneticists at the State
| University of New York College of Environmental Science and
| Forestry (SUNY-ESF), focused on creating a genetically modified
| tree, known as Darling 58, to resist the blight. However, a
| recent discovery revealed that many trees believed to be Darling
| 58 were actually an earlier iteration, Darling 54, which has
| shown less resistance to the blight.
|
| This mix-up has led to significant tension within the
| conservation community, accusations of a cover-up, and concerns
| about the future of the restoration efforts. The controversy has
| also been compounded by disagreements over the involvement of a
| for-profit company and the potential financial gains from selling
| the transgenic seedlings.
|
| In summary, the attempt to save the American chestnut tree
| through genetic modification has faced setbacks due to a mix-up
| in tree identification, leading to internal conflicts and
| questions about transparency and the future direction of the
| restoration project.
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