Thought to have been imported on Asian nursery plants about 1900, by 1950 the chestnut blight had destroyed an estimated 3.5 billion canopy American chestnuts.

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.

Two images from the field show a chestnut sprout and a close up of the fungus. The canker fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, is responsible for widespread loss of American chestnut trees from ...

The American chestnut was all but destroyed by fungal blight and logged as settlements spread west when the United States was settled by Europeans. But lately, it’s making a comeback.

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

In the 1980s the American Chestnut Foundation started a program to restore the tree across its range, using a time-tested agricultural practice of back-crossing, Hoy pointed out a part of the ...

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.

‘America’s tree’ is missing. Will we do what it takes to bring it back? Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut.

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ecologically devastating. Short Wave host Emily Kwong dives ...

A century of data uncovers how chestnut blight has devastated the American chestnut - and how forest composition has evolved since - in Shenanoah National Park, Virginia ...

CRESSONA — Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American chestnut tree. Early Friday morning, a team of volunteers ...

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