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 ...

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

All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," Retired forester John Scrivani explains. They’re beautiful. "And ...

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

Opinion ‘America’s tree’ is missing. Will we do what it takes to bring it back? Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut.

The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a tree that shall for evermore be immortalized as a true forest giant of the ...

American chestnut trees could see a comeback on Long Island, thanks to the efforts of ... He climbs trees as tall as 65 feet to hand-pollinate flowers from chestnuts that have ...

Your plant those nuts, you grow them up into trees that are 5 to 6 years, and they begin to flower, and you take flowers from those trees, and you back across to pure American,” Double said.

The American chestnut, Castanea dentata, once dominated portions of the eastern U.S. forests. Numbering nearly four billion, the tree was among the largest, tallest, and fastest-growing in these ...

By springtime, the group had planted upward of 20,000 seedlings, a mix of 20 different native tree species including the American chestnut, the Virginia pine and a variety of oaks.