A new festival in Castanea Township, Clinton County, looks to celebrate the area’s chestnut history and raise awareness about ...

2006). In order to enhance blight-tolerance in the American chestnut tree, we are studying several gene products, regulatory regions of genes to control expression (promoters), and the possibility of ...

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 ...

[via Inhabitat] Between logging and the introduction of chestnut blight, the once prevalent American chestnut became increasingly uncommon throughout its traditional range in the Appalachians.

We are at the tipping point in ecology where we can continue to hold the wool over our eyes, or we can be the heroes our ecosystems need. With regulations doing little to slow our foreign pest issue, ...

but it faced near extinction due to the chestnut blight, a disease caused by the introduced fungal pathogen Cryphonectria parasitica. Restoration efforts have gained momentum in recent years ...

Blight traveled out in circles from the Bronx, with airborne spores affecting chestnut trees elsewhere in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. In 1909, the Buffalo Courier reported that 10,000 ...

Over the last 36 years, volunteers and TACF partners have been breeding blight-resistant Chinese chestnut trees with American chestnuts to create hybrids. So far, the program has resulted in ...

There’s a new festival in town. This past weekend saw the first-ever PA Chestnut Festival, held in Castanea to a stupendous turnout well in the hundreds, despite the freezing temperatures. The ...

[via Inhabitat] Between logging and the introduction of chestnut blight, the once prevalent American chestnut became increasingly uncommon throughout its traditional range in the Appalachians.

The American chestnut almost was wiped out in the 20th century. Can scientists and the Park Service bring back this iconic tree? At the end of the long weekend last April, the volunteers were cold, ...

Late blight devastates tomato and potato crops, especially in cool, moist regions. Chestnut blight wipes out American chestnut trees and has no cure. Dealing with plant diseases such as tomato ...