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

T he American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a tree that shall for evermore be immortalized as a true forest giant of the ...

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

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

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

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ecologically devastating. Short Wave host Emily Kwong dives ...

These are original American chestnut trees, and I have emailed colleges and many other people to no avail. I guess they’re truly not interested.

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, or číhtkęr in Tuscarora, once grew across what is currently the eastern United States, from Mississippi to Georgia, and into southeastern Canada. The beloved and ...

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

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.

By the end of this summer, the Maine Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation will have planted almost 100 new wild chestnut tree seedlings at 10 locations around Maine. 100 seedlings, 10 locales ...