From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...
Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern Hemisphere which begs the question, “What ...
SHIPMAN—Nostalgic Virginians are harvesting memories as iconic chestnut trees make a comeback from near extinction.
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 ...
In fact, the trees being planted at Flight 93 National Memorial are the latest batch from the American Chestnut Foundation (ACF), which is using a “backcross” technique to hybridize American chestnuts ...
“It ranges from high resistance to none.” Today, there are approximately 435 million American chestnut trees in the country and most are killed by blight long before they reach maturit ...
as well as help the foundation restore blight-resistant chestnut trees based on their regions and genomes. "We learned that the American Chestnut Foundation has more work to do to conserve trees ...