When is the last time you ate oxalate oxidase? Any time you ate wheat. Sampling tissues at the margin of a blight canker on an American chestnut tree.

Controlled inoculations of chestnut stems with the blight fungus have confirmed that Darling trees with OxO have consistently smaller cankers than their non-transgenic relatives. View time-lapse video ...

Additionally, a systematic review has highlighted the critical challenges faced in chestnut cultivation, including pest and disease management, and the need for integrated strategies to enhance ...

Though Murrill did not know the origin of the “canker” killing American chestnuts ... for the American chestnut proved true, the tree was never forgotten; efforts to outwit the chestnut blight began ...

In the 19th century, there were up to 4 billion chestnut trees in the ... and creating large cankers in places where it tried to fight back. Chestnuts killed by blight often look as if a bear ...

The researchers at SUNY have figured out how to move a gene from wheat into the genome of the American chestnut. It allows the trees to break down the toxins from the Asian blight. In other words ...

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...

Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Dave Frederickson this week moved to protect the state’s 6 million eastern black walnut trees and the ... with Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD).