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 ...

Retired financial planner Jim Brady spends his days tending to his hundred-acre wood − maintaining trails, spotting wildlife and fostering American chestnut trees. When he bought the property on ...

A startup called American Castanea has joined the quest to revive the American chestnut tree, the first step in its plan to give forests a genetic upgrade. Under a slice-of-heaven sky, 150 acres ...

We are not patenting the blight resistant American chestnut trees so that once we have regulatory approval, all people will be able to propagate them for personal or restoration use. This will be a ...

Sunlight filtered through the overstory of a thick Pennsylvania forest and a few rays fell upon the long, serrated leaves of the American chestnut trees down below. The higher Mike Manes ...

That's why we were particularly thrilled to find a deal just this good on a Christmas tree — yes, a fully artificial, 6-foot ...

For nearly a decade, Jared Westbrook has worked on resurrecting the American chestnut, an iconic tree that nearly vanished ...

Comcast President Michael Cavanagh has listed his 13,000-square-foot Chestnut Hill estate on the market for $8.495 million, ...

NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. (WPRI) — American chestnut trees have been around for centuries and were a vital resource for those ...

It appears that your tree is suffering from a common fungal disease called horse chestnut leaf blotch. Several of the Garden’s horse chestnuts show signs of this same disease. This year’s ...

Though the American chestnut tree was once a major part of the eastern United States landscape, it pretty much went extinct ...

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 ...