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Some plant pathologists have turned to geneticengineering to devise new ways of responding tobotanical diseases. Plant pathologist William Powell,for instance, teamed up with forest biologist ChuckMaynard to restore North America's population ofAmerican chestnut trees, which was decimated in theearly 1900s by a fungus known as chestnut blight. A fungus, C. parasitica, contributes to thegrowth of cankers on the trees' trunks. These cankers, in turn, preventing trees fromtransporting water from their roots to their branches and leaves. To render American chestnuttrees resistant to the blight, Powell and Maynard experimented with the genetic makeup of thetrees. The resultant genetically engineered trees are called Darling 4 American chestnut trees,and during the first 15 weeks after infection with chestnut blight, they grow cankers that aremuch smaller than those that grow on American chestnut trees.
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