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.

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

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 American Chestnut Foundation recognizes you can’t improve what you can’t measure and uses a combination of “small stem assays (SSAs) performed on potted seedlings, improved phenotype ...

The project aims to plant 1,000 American Chestnut trees in New York City over the course of several years. The species is considered functionally extinct due to a blight caused by a fungus ...

For the last 40 years, the American Chestnut Foundation has been creating a genetically modified species that is resistant to fungal blight. However, it wasn't until now that the idea of adaptive ...

To facilitate a harvest that could prove a key step in the decades-long effort to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut, Go Native Tree Farm employees used a 55-foot lift.

The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to plant 1,000 thriving American chestnut trees that are a hybrid with the blight-resistant Chinese chestnut tree in the five boroughs.

Darling-58 sprouts, a transgenic American chestnut created by ESF researchers, grow in a nutrient solution. Darling 54, a variant, is one step closer to public release following a safety review by ...