If you see a fully-mature red horse chestnut in bloom ... it’s related to the native Ohio buckeye tree, which has greenish ...

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 ...

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

We are not patenting the blight resistant American chestnut trees so that once we have ... Lastly, once your wild-type chestnuts reach flowering age, you can use them as “mother trees” by pollinating ...

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 ...