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 ...

It protects the tree by breaking down a toxin created by the blight fungus ... Hybrid trees have a blended genome from two related species, such as American chestnut and Chinese chestnut. In contrast, ...

"It's the tree version of quinoa ... volunteers and TACF partners have been breeding blight-resistant Chinese chestnut trees with American chestnuts to create hybrids. So far, the program has ...

Japanese and Chinese chestnuts have a natural resistance ... breaks down the acid that blight uses to attack the tree. The American Chestnut Tree foundation made an animated video to explain ...