At one time there were billions of American chestnuts in the Appalachian Mountains. Today, because of chestnut blight, ...

These trees, once the king of American forests in the Northeast ... rust-colored fungus growing on the bark of chestnut trees there. Soon, those trees were dead, as the pathogenic fungus known ...

The timber made good paper pulp, and its bark possessed ... across the tree’s wide range. Once a series of disease-resistant ...

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 ...

Our goal is to reintroduce a population of these tolerant trees back into forest ecosystems of the eastern United States. The American Chestnut Project has evolved from basic research into 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 ...