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

Thought to have been imported on Asian nursery plants about 1900, by 1950 the chestnut blight had destroyed an estimated 3.5 billion canopy American chestnuts.

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

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 ...

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

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

The American chestnuts (Castanea dentata) were once a dominant tree species within the eastern U.S. forests, comprising up to 25 percent of the trees in parts of its natural range. A century ago, the ...

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 project aims to plant 1,000 American Chestnut trees in New York City over the course of several years. The species is considered functionally extinct due to a blight caused by a fungus ...

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 ...