This project by SUNY ESF is an attempt to create a version of the American chestnut that is more resistant to the fungus than ...

It looks like the Natural Land Institute’s Legacy Tree Program has found yet another Illinois state champion tree: a rare ...

Experts confirm that a cluster of trees found by a scientist hiking near Pine Mountain, Ga., are in fact American chestnut trees. But researchers say they have no idea how the trees escaped a ...

Last century, the American chestnut tree was nearly wiped out by a fungus-fueled blight that devoured nearly all of the region's mature trees by the 1950s Skip to Article Set weather ...

These days our world seems to grow ever faster. Of course, faster is a relative term - for the scientists trying to revive the American chestnut tree,… ...

A stand of American chestnut trees that somehow escaped a blight that killed off nearly all their kind in the early 1900s has been discovered in Georgia. IE 11 is not supported.

Two new studies on the environmental impact of transgenic American chestnut trees provide evidence that the trees have no harmful effects on germinating seeds, beneficial fungi, or larval frogs that ...

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 ...

American chestnut trees often grew over 100 feet tall and dominated the Pennsylvania woods until blight signaled their demise, but now there are new efforts to restore them.

The American chestnut tree, or číhtkęr in Tuscarora, once grew across what is currently the eastern United States, from Mississippi to Georgia, and into southeastern Canada. Now, a transgenic ...

These are original American chestnut trees, and I have emailed colleges and many other people to no avail. I guess they’re truly not interested.

A young chestnut tree is seen along a row of research trees at the American Chestnut Foundation's Meadowview Research Farm Oct. 4, 2022, in Meadowview, Virginia. (Brendan Smialowski / ...