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

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.

Germination of Nearby Native Seeds. Seeds of several native plant types from American chestnut habitats (Elymus/grass, Cichorium/forb, Gaultheria/shrub, Acer/deciduous tree, Pinus/conifer) were ...

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," ...

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.

A few weeks ago a reader suggested I write about beech leaf disease, but I said it wasn’t that big a deal. Then I went for a ...

Light shines behind leaves on an American chestnut tree in Olean on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. Joed Viera/Buffalo News Brady knows he hasn’t found all of the chestnut trees on his property.

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.

The American Chestnut Foundation recognizes you can’t improve what you can’t measure and uses a combination of “small stem ... leaf and twig samples for verification. Tom. Report comment. Reply.