By the mid-20th century, approximately 99% of American Chestnut trees had succumbed to the blight. Today, only a few saplings manage to survive, clinging to life but never reaching full maturity.

The American Chestnut Tree foundation made an animated video ... She said many of the saplings would be purposely infected with blight, even thought the fungus is likely already in the air there.

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 ...

The American Chestnut Foundation recognizes ... performed on potted seedlings, improved phenotype scoring methods for field-grown trees, and the use of genomic prediction models for scoring ...

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 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 ...