Before the blight, the American chestnut was the dominant tree in hardwood forests from Maine to Missouri and Mississippi. A mature tree in a favorable location in a well-watered upland valley of ...

The USDA has begun a 45-day open comment period for its review of the Darling chestnut, making the final step in the process ...

Darling-58 sprouts, a transgenic American chestnut created by ESF researchers, grow in a nutrient solution. Darling 54, a ...

Small Stem Assay Method Instructions. American chestnut test for enhanced blight resistance. From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called ...

As molecular plant pathology research advances, more and more genes are being identified with a plant's ability to defend itself against disease (see Powell et al. 2006).In order to enhance ...

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ecologically devastating. Short Wave host Emily Kwong dives ...

Back to homepage / Live news For blight-ridden American chestnut tree, rebirth may be in offing. Meadowview (United States) (AFP) – The American chestnut tree, once a regal pillar of forests ...

THAT all the chestnut trees in the United States are doomed to destruction by a mysterious disease called chestnut blight, or canker, is the gloomy prediction of Dr. W.A. Murrill, Assistant ...

By 1950, much of the nation’s chestnut tree stand had fallen victim to the blight. Frank Snyder, retired state forester in Schuylkill and Carbon counties, said the chestnut tree played a key ...

The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to plant 1,000 thriving American chestnut trees that are a hybrid with the blight-resistant Chinese chestnut tree in the five boroughs.