is to conduct basic and applied research that will lead to the development of blight-tolerant American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata). Our goal is to reintroduce a population of these tolerant ...

Several decades later, we are seeking government approval to begin distributing the first blight-tolerant transgenic American chestnut. These trees were produced by inserting a gene called oxalate ...

The downfall of the American Chestnut tree is a somber chapter in the history of North American forests. Once towering giants that dominated the landscape of the Eastern United States, these ...

A Gloucestershire estate is to continue "important tree work" this winter to restore a historic avenue. Bathurst Estate will ...

Have you ever heard someone tell a tired old joke, only for someone else to dismiss it as an “old chestnut”? Jokes aren’t the ...

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 Castanea Township Recreation Committee is gearing up for their first Pennsylvania Chestnut Festival, designed to honor ...

“I said ‘Dad, what caused all these trees to die?’ he asked. “Was it lightning?’” It wasn’t lightning. His dad told him of the once-dominant American chestnut and the blight that ...

Aug 17, 2024 Aug 17, 2024 Updated Aug 18, 2024 The American chestnut tree was one of the most populous and mighty trees in eastern North America before a blight over the past century brought it to ...