SIMSBURY, CT — A rare tree has been found in a publicly accessible wooded area, confirming reports made by local hikers and ...

If you read Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” the sad fate of the American chestnut tree will be familiar to you. If ...

Parking near the base, I came upon an experimental planting of American chestnut trees. Then, hiking up the mountain, I found an American chestnut sapling in the forest proper. This was a sprout ...

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 ...

Our first species is the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) sometimes called the “Sequoia of the East”. This species was once found thriving throughout eastern forests from central Maine west to ...

The American Chestnut Foundation recognizes you can ... PRR resistance has been found to be less genetically complicated, so progress has been faster on resistance to that particular problem.

This resistance can be intermediate between American and Chinese chestnut, approximately equal to, or even higher than the resistance naturally found in Chinese chestnut, depending on the transgene ...

it’s possible you’ve even driven down a Chestnut Street in your hometown. But have you ever seen a healthy American chestnut tree in a forest? The odds are low. As the Wall Street Journal ...