SciShow: Bringing Back the Lost Tree of Eastern America

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Content of the Lesson: American chestnut trees were all over the US at the end of the 19th century until the fungus wiped most of them out. Scientists have been trying to figure out ways to bring those endangered American chestnuts back to their former glory. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources https://doi.org/10.1007/s11248-013-9708-5 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01046 https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12879 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/215/4532/466 https://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/chestnut/information/conference-2004/conference/griffin https://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2229-9-51 http://www.jbc.org/content/268/17/12239.full.pdf+html http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.04.004 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-007-0313-z https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.1987.12025367 https://academic.oup.com/jof/article/98/2/22/4614209 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-9921-7_1 https://htirc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Jacobs-2007-min.pdf https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/b95-261#.XIldDBNKjVp https://www.researchgate.net/profile/F_Paillet/publication/237164099_Replacement_of_native_oak_and_hickory_tree_species_by_the_introduced_American_chestnut_Castanea_dentata_in_southwestern_Wisconsin/links/551058650cf203521969fdf0/Replacement-of-native-oak-and-hickory-tree-species-by-the-introduced-American-chestnut-Castanea-dentata-in-southwestern-Wisconsin.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2009.04.014 https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15216540211474 http://www.jbc.org/content/285/34/26685.full http://science.sciencemag.org/content/35/906/717 http://sararegistry.gc.ca/species/speciesDetails_e.cfm?sid=205 https://www.esf.edu/chestnut/about.asp https://www.esf.edu/chestnut/background.htm https://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/chestnut/breeding/blight/tracking https://portal.ct.gov/CAES/Fact-Sheets/Plant-Pathology/Chestnuts-and-the-Introduction-of-Chestnut-Blight https://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-8s5qbf https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chestnut-forest-a-new-generation-of-american-chestnut-trees-may-redefine-americas-forests/ https://www.nature.com/news/plant-science-the-chestnut-resurrection-1.11504 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/save-iconic-american-chestnut-researchers-plan-introduction-genetically-engineered-tree http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/28/AR2005122801235.html Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=american+chestnut+tree&title=Special:Search&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1#/media/File:PSM_V84_D567_Chestnut_tree_near_the_trail_of_buck_spring_lodge.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/giant-redwood-forest-gm691856620-127635569 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/giant-sequoia-trees-gm904074920-249333034 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cryphonectria_parasitica_tree_bark_(2).jpg https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/35D7B28E-1DD8-B71B-0B18B3A90AA64E05 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSM_V84_D565_American_chestnut_mitchel_county.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_chestnut#/media/File:Castanea_dentata_range_map_2.png https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/14571.php https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=american+chestnut&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1#/media/File:Tower_Hill_Botanic_Garden_-_American_chestnuts.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Castanea_dentata#/media/File:PSM_V84_D563_American_chestnut_central_maryland.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_Chestnut_blight_suvivor.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castanea_crenata#/media/File:Castanea_crenata_3.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_blight#/media/File:Chestnut_blight_on_cut_tree_in_Adams_County_Ohio.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalic_acid#/media/File:Oxalic_acid_molecule_ball_from_xtal.png


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