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 ...

3. The Romans planted chestnut trees across Europe Sweet chestnuts were an important part of the Roman diet. They ground them into flour or coarse meal to make bread, and Roman soldiers were fed a ...

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 ...

You’ve probably heard of chestnut trees. And depending on where you live, it’s possible you’ve even driven down a Chestnut Street in your hometown. But have you ever seen a healthy American ...

It's spring in Geneva when the secretary general of the cantonal parliament sees the first leaf on the city's official horse ...

A new festival in Castanea Township, Clinton County, looks to celebrate the area’s chestnut history and raise awareness about its recovery efforts.

An additional step, regeneration, is needed for embryo tissue culture. To enhance blight resistance in the American chestnut tree, we are studying several gene products, regulatory regions of genes to ...

The downfall of the American Chestnut tree is a somber chapter in the history of North American forests. Once towering giants that dominated the landscape of the Eastern United States, these ...

The tree dates back to 1539 and is situated in what has become an urban park surrounded by homes on the edge of Wrexham city centre A sweet chestnut which has been standing tall since Queen ...