The chestnut tree, an emblematic species with both cultural and economic significance across Europe and Asia, faces considerable challenges due to a range of fungal diseases.

NO CHESTNUT TREE DISEASES.; Trees Affected Only by Severe Weather Conditions, an Expert Declares. Share full article. Oct. 1, 1908. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

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

Discover the major common tree diseases in the United States. Armillaria attacks both hardwoods and softwoods and causes either yellowing leaves or browning needles. Wood that is decaying from ...

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

THAT all the chestnut trees in the United States are doomed to destruction by a mysterious disease called chestnut blight, or canker, is the gloomy prediction of Dr. W.A. Murrill, Assistant ...

As molecular plant pathology research advances, more and more genes are being identified with a plant's ability to defend itself against disease (see Powell et al. 2006).In order to enhance ...

A young American chestnut tree grows in a field at a SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry field research station in Syracuse, N.Y., on July 14, 2022.

The American chestnut tree was nearly wiped out by disease. But efforts are underway to develop a new strain that's more resistant to blight.

The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to plant 1,000 thriving American chestnut trees that are a hybrid with the blight-resistant Chinese chestnut tree in the five boroughs.