Mallory Yu, Daniel Wanschura - NPR, Great lakes Now - Mar 3, 2025
Kathleen Knight keeps looking for even more of these lingering ash trees. She finds them in parts of Ohio and Michigan and takes branches from these trees back to Jennifer Koch's lab. There, Jennifer clones them and runs tests to see if there's genetic resistance. And she discovers something amazing. These trees not only have resistance to the emerald ash borer, they actually kill EAB larvae. Scientists really didn't see that coming.
