SUNY ESF scientists seek federal approval to restore the American chestnut tree that was all but wiped out 100 years ago.

Occasionally in the forests you can now find sprouts of American chestnut, but they never (or rarely) attain much size.

It looks like the Natural Land Institute’s Legacy Tree Program has found yet another Illinois state champion tree: a rare ...

The chestnut blight is a fungus accidentally brought to North America on imported Asiatic trees in the late 1800s, and it’s devastated our wild American species, rendering it functionally extinct.

Unlike many other hardwood species, the American chestnut also produced edible nuts — the chestnut — famously known for “roasting over an open fire” in Torme and Wells’ “The Christmas Song.” Once used ...

The American Chestnut Foundation has spent the last 40 years creating a genetically modified, blight-resistant species, but adaptive diversity has not been a focus until now.

An American chestnut tree that was planted in the 1970s reaches for the sky. While some scientists are trying to develop Asian-American hybrids that are resistant to chestnut blight, ...

The American Chestnut Foundation, among others, has been trying for decades to breed a hybrid that is mostly American in genetics but with the fungus-fighting traits of the Chinese type.

In the late 1800s, a virulent chestnut blight reached American shores, and by 1940, it killed an estimated 4 billion trees, virtually wiping them off the continent.

Jim Brady discovered an American chestnut tree on his property in Olean. It sparked his quest fighting against a 200-year-old blight to revive a species that once numbered in the billions and ...

This project by SUNY ESF is an attempt to create a version of the American chestnut that is more resistant to the fungus than ...