Once a towering presence in northeastern forests, the American Chestnut is making a quiet comeback in Brooklyn.

All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," ...

The American Chestnut Foundation grew concerned, too, about SUNY ESF’s interest in using a for-profit company to eventually grow seeds, a move the school meant to help scale up distribution but ...

A local orchard will become a test site in the rejuvenation of the beleaguered  American Chestnut tree Friday during a tree ...

An SC orchard is helping restore the American chestnut tree, the dominate tree in eastern U.S. forests and Appalachia until Asian chestnut blight killed them.

The plant breeders had crossed the Chinese chestnut and the American chestnut, 1/16: 15/16 respectively, which has a 50% survival rate according to current studies. Efforts are underway to bring ...

The American Chestnut Foundation recognizes you can’t improve what you can’t measure and uses a combination of “small stem assays (SSAs) performed on potted seedlings, ...

For the last 40 years, the American Chestnut Foundation has been creating a genetically modified species that is resistant to fungal blight. However, it wasn't until now that the idea of adaptive ...

The American Chestnut Foundation, among others, has been trying for decades to breed a hybrid that is mostly American in genetics but with the fungus-fighting traits of the Chinese type.

100 seedlings, 10 locales. The Maine Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation is planting chestnut seedlings in 10 locations across the state this summer.

The American Chestnut Foundation, among others, has been trying for decades to breed a hybrid that is mostly American in genetics but with the fungus-fighting traits of the Chinese type.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. By the end of this summer, the Maine Chapter of The American Chestnut ...