Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it has prepared a revised draft environmental impact ...

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

The USDA wants to deregulate (approve for release into the wild) the GM American chestnut tree in spite of the fact that it ...

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

State chapters of the national foundation cross locally-adapted pure American chestnut trees with the Chinese chestnut, which is resistant to cryphonectria parasitica, known as chestnut blight.

Since 1969, more than 12,000 hybrid chestnuts with American and Chinese and Japanese genetics have been planted here as part of an effort to breed blight resistance into our native trees.

Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American chestnut tree. Early Friday morning, a team of volunteers dropped about 1,0… ...

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.

Except for a slightly slower growth rate, the hybrids seem nearly indistinguishable from traditional American chestnuts and are recovering from the blight at rates in line with the Chinese control ...

The American Chestnut Foundation, among others, has been trying for decades to breed a hybrid that is mostly American in genetics but with the fungus-fighting traits of the Chinese type.

Occasionally in the forests you can now find sprouts of American chestnut, but they never (or rarely) attain much size.

The progress in developing American chestnut hybrids with height of the American chestnut and the blight-resistance of the Chinese chestnut has been significant.