All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," ...

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 ...

History of Darling American chestnut. Founding members of the New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation approached Dr. William Powell and Dr. Charles Maynard of ESF in 1989, asking them ...

In 2021, he was in for a shock. “We were quite surprised to see that since 1977, the forest had changed dramatically,” Karban says. Most of the mature chestnut trees had vanished — the victim of ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON—More than a century after blight decimated the American chestnut tree, the U.S. government is weighing whether to allow a genetically engineered version to spread in the wild.

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

American chestnut trees once covered the state of West Virginia, providing essential materials and feeding its residents, but in the early 20th century, they were nearly wiped from existence.

The American Chestnut Foundation recognizes you can’t improve what you can’t measure and uses a combination of “small stem assays (SSAs) performed on potted seedlings, improved phenotype ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. By the end of this summer, the Maine Chapter of The American Chestnut ...

The chestnut blight is a fungus accidentally brought to North America on imported Asiatic trees in the late 1800s, and it’s devastated our wild American species, rendering it functionally extinct.