The chestnut tree, an emblematic species with both cultural and economic significance across Europe and Asia, faces considerable challenges due to a range of fungal diseases.

NO CHESTNUT TREE DISEASES.; Trees Affected Only by Severe Weather Conditions, an Expert Declares. Share full article. Oct. 1, 1908. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

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

This American chestnut tree, shown Nov. 11, 2021, at the Lake Erie Regional Grape Research and Extension Center, 662 N. Cemetery Road, North East Township, Erie County, shows evidence of chestnut ...

Struck by a blight identified in 1904, American chestnut trees are considered "functionally extinct." Now those that remain are facing a new disease.

Norwich BioScience Institutes. (2010, April 19). Horse chestnut tree disease: Conquering conker canker. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 8, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 04 ...

Once a towering presence in northeastern forests, the American Chestnut is making a quiet comeback in Brooklyn.

Once an icon, the functionally extinct American chestnut tree could be restored 04:44. Nearly four billion American chestnut trees once grew in the eastern United States, dominating forests from ...

Discover the major common tree diseases in the United States. Armillaria attacks both hardwoods and softwoods and causes either yellowing leaves or browning needles. Wood that is decaying from ...

A young American chestnut tree grows in a field at a SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry field research station in Syracuse, N.Y., on July 14, 2022.

Struck by a blight identified in 1904, American chestnut trees are considered "functionally extinct." Now those that remain are facing a new disease.