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Hope Springs for Butternut Trees as Scientists Map Disease-Resistant Populations
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Butternut trees, once abundant across North American forests, face extinction from a devastating fungal disease. Virginia Tech researchers are using data science to identify disease-resistant trees and their ideal growing locations, paving the way for successful reforestation efforts that could bring this ecologically valuable species back from the brink.
Butternut trees, once abundant across North American forests, face extinction from a devastating fungal disease. Virginia Tech researchers are using data science to identify disease-resistant trees and their ideal growing locations, paving the way for successful reforestation efforts that could bring this ecologically valuable species back from the brink.