From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...

An invasive tree species that is illegal to plant in Ohio has begun to bloom, and will soon fill the air with a distinctive ...

Soon, those trees were dead, as the pathogenic fungus known simply as “blight” found its way through cracks in the bark and bore into the wood, destroying the trees’ vascular system and ...

The concepts, techniques, and gene cassettes we develop for the American chestnut will have broad applications in managing diseases affecting other important tree species such as Dutch-elm disease and ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - An invasive tree is beginning to bloom across Ohio. According to WCMH, the Callery pear tree, a species ...