But thanks in part to trees planted in areas where the two fungi don’t grow well, the American chestnut isn’t extinct. And efforts to revive it in its native range have continued, despite the long ...

For more than a century, scientists and conservationists have tried to bring back the American chestnut, a tree once so ...

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests ...

Modern genomic tools can substantially accelerate restoration of the American chestnut while preserving its ecological ...

After more than a century of devastation from deadly blight, the iconic American chestnut tree could be brought back from the brink of extinction thanks to novel genomic tools and carefully bred ...

Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. They soared in height, producing so many nuts that sellers moved them by train car. Every Christmas, they’ ...

Once a defining tree of eastern forests, the American chestnut was nearly erased by a foreign fungus within a few human generations. A genetically engineered line known as Darling 54 has now pushed ...

BLACKSBURG — A group of fourth graders went home on Wednesday afternoon a little messier than they were when they left home that morning. n Identification: Deciduous tree with oblong, toothed leaves ...

Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. Every Christmas, they're called to mind by the holiday lyric “chestnuts roasting on an open fire.” ...