Seed from Midwest ginseng farms planted in Pennsylvania forest

To meet global demand for American ginseng – the medicinal plant traditionally collected in the forests of Appalachia and traded and used internationally – the plant now is commonly cultivated on forest farms in the U.S. Northeast.
But, according to a team of researchers at Penn State and James Madison University, much of the seed for that agroforestry enterprise is coming from field-based, artificial-shade ginseng farms in Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada — and it may be influencing the genetics of naturally occurring ginseng.

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