These folks are working to breed a blight resistant American Chestnut by crossing with the Asian Chestnut and then back-crossing to get back to the American version but with the blight resistant characteristic.
Every year or two, I look on their website to see when I might plant an American Chestnut. For the life of me, I can't find that simple bit of information. I can get baby trees but they say that they will succumb in 15 years or so. Well, that's not good.
If I read it right the GMO guys got involved and isolated the blight gene, fired up CRISPR or something and now they are working on a version.
But all my elderly brain wants is, "when?"
Are there any Creekers following this?