Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern Hemisphere which begs the question, “What ...

In the meantime, we are continuing research on other lines and working to scale-up our capacity to produce and distribute trees once we have regulatory approval. Much of this work is being done in ...

We are continuously studying interactions between our transgenic trees and the environment and potential impacts on ecosystem and human health. A series of articles summarizing various safety tests ...

“I see one over there, but it’s dead,” said Manes, a volunteer with the American Chestnut Foundation. In the 19th century, there were up to 4 billion chestnut trees in the United ...

For nearly a decade, Jared Westbrook has worked on resurrecting the American chestnut, an iconic tree that nearly vanished ...

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 withstand an invasive fungus ...

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. "The breeding program ...