is to conduct basic and applied research that will lead to the development of blight-tolerant American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata). Our goal is to reintroduce a population of these tolerant ...

Several decades later, we are seeking government approval to begin distributing the first blight-tolerant transgenic American chestnut. These trees were produced by inserting a gene called oxalate ...

You’ve probably heard of chestnut trees. And depending on where you live, it’s possible you’ve even driven down a Chestnut Street in your hometown. But have you ever seen a healthy American ...

Sunlight filtered through the overstory of a thick Pennsylvania forest and a few rays fell upon the long, serrated leaves of the American chestnut trees down below. The higher Mike Manes ...

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 ...

Arborists and botanists have struggled to develop blight resistant chestnut trees for decades with little success. Until now. A genuine version of the American chestnut is at hand, but there is ...

But more recently, some outside researchers began to notice problems with the Darling trees they were growing, according to the American Chestnut Foundation. Some were lagging in height compared ...

Were roasted chestnuts really a thing? I thought chestnut trees were extinct. A. The original American chestnut tree is “functionally extinct” according to “The American Chestnut: An Environmental ...

Read the full story. — Robin George Andrews GMOs could reboot chestnut trees Living as long as a thousand years, the American chestnut tree once dominated parts of the Eastern forest canopy ...