This project by SUNY ESF is an attempt to create a version of the American chestnut that is more resistant to the fungus than ...

A chestnut tree hybrid resisting blight infection by walling off. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) While the researchers are hopeful that the chestnut hybrids take root in northern climates, ...

And unlike the crossbred trees, the genetically engineered ones preserve nearly all of the native chestnut’s genome. “To me, this is really the answer,” he said.

About 3.5 billion American chestnut trees covering 9 million acres -- used by farmers and their livestock for food, by woodworkers for furniture, fencing and home construction -- vanished by the ...

According to the American Chestnut Foundation, which is leading the charge to restore the chestnut, mature trees were indeed awesome, towering as much as 100 feet above the ground, with trunks ...

The chestnut was the challenge facing early-twentieth-century American botanists. For decades, however, chestnut blight, which kills by girdling the tree with cankers that work inward and choke ...

An American chestnut tree’s trunk shows signs of blight at the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science & Forestry Lafayette Road Experiment Station in Syracuse, N.Y ...

The American chestnut tree, or číhtkęr in Tuscarora, once grew across what is currently the eastern United States, from Mississippi to Georgia, and into southeastern Canada. Now, a transgenic ...

Chestnut trees were immortalized in American literary history by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose 1840 poem, “The Village Blacksmith,” opened with the line: ...

The stately chestnut tree once was the foundation of North America’s hardwood forests and as late as 1930, it was estimated the chestnut comprised 40% of the Eastern Hardwood Forest.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The wild chestnuts around this leafy college town used to grow in such great numbers that locals collected the nuts by the bushel and shipped them off to New York City for a ...