From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...

Today, there are approximately 435 million American chestnut trees in the country and most are killed by blight long before they reach maturity. The American chestnut, today, is considered ...

The mission of the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is to conduct basic and applied research ...

Flight 93 staff have partnered with scientists and foresters from the American Chestnut Foundation to plant seedlings they hope will be the first in more than a century to withstand an invasive fungus ...

Arborists and botanists have struggled to develop blight resistant chestnut trees for decades with little success. Until now. A genuine version of the American chestnut is at hand, but there is ...

As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, “The American chestnut became functionally extinct by the early 20th century.” Billions of them filled our forests, until a deadly blight from ...

This blight attacks the tree's bark, creating cankers that girdle and ultimately kill mature trees. By the mid-20th century, approximately 99% of American Chestnut trees had succumbed to the blight.

And the area is isolated from the fungal disease, commonly known as chestnut blight, that decimated the American chestnut in the early 1900s. With all the right conditions in place, the 120 trees ...