Sunlight filtered through the overstory of a thick Pennsylvania forest and a few rays fell upon the long, serrated leaves of the American chestnut trees down below. The higher Mike Manes ...

The rapid decline of the chestnut due to the pathogenic fungus Cryphonectria parasitica has been a subject of much debate and despair over the years, but now, chestnuts engineered to battle the fungus ...

A new challenge toward residents aims to bring 1,000 thriving chestnut trees to New York City. The goal is to help distribute ...

Our goal is to have these trees available to the public by the fall of 2023. We have also embarked on a multi-university collaborative effort to identify the tolerance genes in Chinese chestnut (see ...

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...

“We’ve never seen a chestnut tree before,” said Melanie Barnett ... a traditional Japanese dish usually eaten in the fall. To keep these customers happy and returning next year, Johsens ...

You’ve probably heard of chestnut trees. And depending on where you live, it’s possible you’ve even driven down a Chestnut Street in your hometown. But have you ever seen a healthy American ...

As of the fall of 2013, we have planted 1275 transgenic chestnut trees at eight sites in New York State and one in Virginia. Based on field-trial inoculations, greenhouse small-stem inoculations and ...