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 ...

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 ...

The Town of Simsbury announced Oct. 11 that reports made by local hikers over the summer had identified a mature purebred ...

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 ...

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

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 ...