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

This produced 11,700 American chestnut seeds, over twice as many as the 5,378 harvested last year. Most of these are T3 crosses (third generation), but this number also includes 560 T4 (fourth ...

Plant Chestnut Trees To Grow Your Own Stash Of Nuts. You can grow chestnut trees either by burying the seeds directly into the ground, though they ...

Ecologists Strive to Restore the American Chestnut. At One Time Plentiful, Fungus-Decimated Tree Vanished in Early 1900s. January 3, 2004. By Elizabeth Williamson.

The Purdue Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center has signed a commercial partnership agreement with Tree Pro to distribute select hardwood seedlings from its breeding program beginning in ...

1 / 7 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Shawn Dooley, an engineer for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division, volunteers to plant American Chestnut seedlings at Patoka Lake, Dubois, Ind ...

Maybe my chestnut seedlings will survive and indeed grow big and strong, and my children and grandchildren may one day be able to roast a bushel of chestnuts “on an open fire” for Thanksgiving.