Sally Strange<p>"On December 8th, the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) made a shocking announcement that it was withdrawing support for several pending regulatory petitions that authorize the distribution of the controversial transgenic American chestnut tree, called Darling 58, outside permitted research plots due to “significant performance limitations.”</p><p>"...TACF cited performance limitations for all Darling progeny, which included lack of blight resistance, unexplained high mortality rates, and poor growth."</p><p>Looks like the skeptics of genetics engineering were, once again, mostly correct in their critiques. </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ChestnutTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChestnutTrees</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecology</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/GeneticEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneticEngineering</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ReWilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReWilding</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://globaljusticeecology.org/ge-chestnut-loses-backers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">globaljusticeecology.org/ge-ch</span><span class="invisible">estnut-loses-backers/</span></a></p>