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Genetically Modified Trees Planted in U.S. Forest for First Time - The New York...

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Science|For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest

For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest

Living Carbon, a biotechnology company, hopes its seedlings can help manage climate change. But wider use of its trees may be elusive.

A group of men in a field with bright green vests, bags and farming tools. Tall trees with brown leaves line the background.
The company reported in a paper that has yet to be peer reviewed that its tweaked poplars grew more than 50 percent faster than non-modified ones over five months in the greenhouse.
A group of men in a field with bright green vests, bags and farming tools. Tall trees with brown leaves line the background.

By Gabriel Popkin

Photographs by Audra Melton

Feb. 16, 2023

On Monday, in a low-lying tract of southern Georgia’s pine belt, a half-dozen workers planted row upon row of twig-like poplar trees.

These weren’t just any trees, though: Some of the seedlings being nestled into the soggy soil had been genetically engineered to grow wood at turbocharged rates while slurping up carbon dioxide from the air.

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