Thursday - March 5, 2026
News Tipoffs - Mississippi Editors Newsletter for Sunday February 15, 2026 ( 1 items )  

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology: Genomics is Helping Bring the Iconic American Chestnut Back to the Forest
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Feb. 14 (TNSjou) -- The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology issued the following news: * * * Genomics is helping bring the iconic American chestnut back to the forest By Sarah Sharman, PhD One hundred years ago, if you were hiking the Appalachian Trail, towering trees would have dominated the forest canopy. The American chestnut, often called the "redwood of the East" due to its size, stretched from Maine to Mississippi, feeding wildlife and humans, shading mountain   more