CENTREVILLE, Del. (AP) — After the species was devastated by an Asian blight in the early 20th century, a single American chestnut tree in Centreville has been deemed a “precious resource ...

The American chestnut tree was once a prominent member of eastern American forests, but was effectively lost because of a fungal blight pathogen that hitchhiked to the U.S. on resistant species of ...

To do this, two main research avenues are under investigation: The first, which has been in place for years, consists of crossing an American chestnut tree with other species that already show ...

The Cape chestnut is a small to medium-sized growing tree native to the Cape region of South Africa. It is a member of the ...

The American chestnut was a keystone species until the late 1800s, ... Jeff Garnas holds the leaf of a chestnut tree.

Darling-58 sprouts, a transgenic American chestnut created by ESF researchers, grow in a nutrient solution. Darling 54, a variant, is one step closer to public release following a safety review by the ...

Seeing a chestnut tree that size is incredibly rare, he said, and means it has reached the canopy and is flowering and making seeds. “We thought it should be preserved,” said Colin.

CENTREVILLE, Del. (AP) — After the species was devastated by an Asian blight in the early 20th century, a single American chestnut tree in Centreville has been deemed a “precious resource ...

An American chestnut tree on Traylor Renfro's mountaintop retreat is seen Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Grassy Creek, N.C. After the species was devastated by an Asian blight in the early 20th ...

FILE - This Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 photo shows an American chestnut tree on Traylor Renfro's mountaintop retreat in Grassy Creek, N.C. After the species was devastated by an Asian blight in the ...