It's been a very long time since vendors sold the American chestnut on city sidewalks. It's no longer the variety whose smell ...

These are exciting times for American chestnut restoration but we still have more to do. As the old Chinese proverb goes, "One Generation Plants the Tree, the Next Generation Enjoys the Shade." Please ...

These trees were produced by inserting a gene called oxalate oxidase (OxO) into the American chestnut genome. This gene, found in many plants in the environment such as bananas, strawberries, and some ...

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard.

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves ... One approach is based on conventional plant breeding techniques and has been ...

the American chestnut tree. Flight 93 staff have partnered with scientists and foresters from the American Chestnut Foundation to plant seedlings they hope will be the first in more than a century to ...

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 ...

It's been a very long time since vendors sold the American chestnut on city sidewalks ... ahead for chestnuts: where to plant them. If a successful tree is cobbled together with genes taken ...