The USDA has begun a 45-day open comment period for its review of the Darling chestnut, making the final step in the process ...

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

Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American ...

By 1950, much of the nation’s chestnut tree stand had fallen victim to the blight. Frank Snyder, retired state forester in Schuylkill and Carbon counties, said the chestnut tree played a key ...

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

Before the blight, chestnut trees were a kind of currency, particularly in Appalachia, where livestock grew fat grazing on the nuts. Families enjoyed them as a treat, and in lean years, as a ...

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.

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

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – June 16, 2025 — You can play a vital role in restoring the American chestnut tree to northeastern forests by participating in the open comment period for the blight-tolerant ‘Darling’ ...

In as little as 50 years, some estimate that 4 billion individual American chestnut trees died from the blight, which kills the trees before they are mature enough to reproduce.

Jim Brady discovered an American chestnut tree on his property in Olean. It sparked his quest fighting against a 200-year-old blight to revive a species that once numbered in the billions and ...

CNY Outdoors Genetically engineered chestnut tree, grown in Syracuse, moves one step closer to release Published: Jul. 01, 2025, 7:02 a.m.