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 ...
The mission of the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is to conduct basic and applied research ...
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 ...