This project by SUNY ESF is an attempt to create a version of the American chestnut that is more resistant to the fungus than ...

Darling-58 sprouts, a transgenic American chestnut created by ESF researchers, grow in a nutrient solution. Darling 54, a variant, is one step closer to public release following a safety review by the ...

It looks like the Natural Land Institute’s Legacy Tree Program has found yet another Illinois state champion tree: a rare ...

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

It is now more than a century since the American chestnut tree - once 4 billion strong and an icon of East Coast forests - fell victim to a foreign blight. By 1950, it had virtually disappeared.

WHAT TO KNOW. American chestnut trees could see a comeback on Long Island, thanks to the efforts of environmentalists who have planted around 25 orchards of saplings since 2020. Long considered an ...

There's a new effort to replant functionally extinct trees that once populated the New York City area by the billions. Researchers are working to make the American Chestnut more resistant to the ...

Fungal blight decimated the American chestnut tree in the early 20th century, killing billions of trees and altering the life cycle of the species native to the Appalachian Mountain region.

About 3.5 billion American chestnut trees covering 9 million acres -- used by farmers and their livestock for food, by woodworkers for furniture, fencing and home construction -- vanished by the ...

An American chestnut tree that was planted in the 1970s reaches for the sky. While some scientists are trying to develop Asian-American hybrids that are resistant to chestnut blight, ...

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 ...

FAUQUIER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Did you know that an estimated 4 billion American chestnut trees, a species native to Virginia and other states, were wiped out by a fungus?