CRESSONA — Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American chestnut tree. Early Friday morning, a team of volunteers dropped ...
Sara Fitzsimmons fights to resurrect a tree that once ruled the eastern U.S. forests. Billions of American chestnut trees once shaped life in Appalachia, but a foreign fungus erased them in a matter ...
NPR: Researchers have been trying to breed fungus-resistant chestnut trees for 100 years
We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut trees they hope will one day fight off a fungus that's been killing the iconic American tree for more than a century. And now a checkup of ...
Researchers have been trying to breed fungus-resistant chestnut trees for 100 years
In the eastern United States, that rare sense of awe was once supplied in bulk by the American chestnut. Its presence stunned: mature trees rose above the hardwood canopy supported by trunks wider ...
A startup called American Castanea has joined the quest to revive the American chestnut tree, the first step in its plan to give forests a genetic upgrade. Under a slice-of-heaven sky, 150 acres of ...
The Hill: That new chestnut? USDA plans to allow the release of GE trees into wild forests
Although many Americans still associate the winter holidays with chestnuts, the tree that once produced them — the American chestnut — no longer does so, except in a few rare cases. During the first ...
That new chestnut? USDA plans to allow the release of GE trees into wild forests