A blight-resistant chestnut tree developed by researchers at SUNY ESF is moving forward in its review by the USDA.

Want to get started growing American Chestnut trees? Learn how to start harvesting chestnuts at home and choose the best species for you. The majestic American chestnut tree was once common ...

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

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

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The pathogen that killed off the American chestnut arrived before 1900, carried on Japanese chestnut saplings imported for ...

After American chestnuts began to die, American elms replaced them as the dominant street trees around the country. But late in the 20th century, they too were killed off, in their case by Dutch ...

We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut trees they hope will one day fight off a fungus that's been killing the iconic American tree for more than a century.

Still, American chestnut trees are better suited for timber, they're culturally loved by people all over North America and they used to be an important species for the ecological health of forests ...

The mission of the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Center is to conduct basic and applied research that will lead to the development of a blight-resistant American chestnut tree (Castanea ...