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 ...

SHIPMAN—Nostalgic Virginians are harvesting memories as iconic chestnut trees make a comeback from near extinction.

Bill Stouffer and his wife own Cedar Hill Farms in central Missouri, and he was at the festival selling chestnuts. His farm ...

Though the American chestnut tree was once a major part of the eastern United States landscape, it pretty much went extinct ...

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 ...

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

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 ...