His hope is that when a blight-resistant chestnut is approved for use by the U.S. government, that he could get the nuts and ...

Yet American chestnut trees are best appreciated in forests ... But for this, the trees still would thrive in North America. Now we have an opportunity to save the chestnut through the miracle ...

Most of the mature chestnut trees had vanished - the victim of canker fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica. That fungus has accounted for the widespread loss of the American chestnut trees throughout ...

Huff is optimistic the American chestnut can be saved, and that’s why he meticulously tends to the 74 plots he has planted over the last several years.

Founding members of the New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation approached Dr. William Powell and Dr. Charles Maynard of ESF in 1989, asking them about using modern tools of genetic ...

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

is a medium to tall tree native to North America. A member of the Fagaceae family, this tree is closely related to other commonly known trees such as all species of oak and the American chestnut tree.

An additional step, regeneration, is needed for embryo tissue culture. The following explains the process of tissue culture for American chestnut somatic embryos (non-zygotic embryos established from ...

The professional circuit for the game of conkers — in which contestants swing a chestnut attached to ... get into conkering closer to home, the North American Conker Championship will be held ...