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 ...

The goal of this "assisted migration" experiment is to see if humans could not only help the American chestnut tree deal with climate change but also help restore it.

The American chestnut — once among the largest, tallest, fastest-growing trees in the eastern U.S. woodlands — could see a revival on Long Island. A group of Island environmentalists hopes to ...

The American chestnut tree, once a regal pillar of forests across the eastern United States, is on life support, struggling to survive.

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 ...

Let’s Save the American Chestnut Tree with Technology The global experience of GMOs—on my farm in New Jersey as well as in distant places like Australia, India, Kenya, and elsewhere—teaches ...

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

CENTREVILLE, Del. (AP) — After the species was devastated by an Asian blight in the early 20th century, a single American chestnut tree in Centreville has been deemed a “precious resource ...

Native trees adapt to the climate and environmental conditions of their area to survive. Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the American Chestnut ...

Olean man discovers American chestnut trees − which are functionally extinct − on his wooded property.