A Purdue University researcher is working to restore the American chestnut, an important wildlife tree and timber resource that dominated the landscape from Maine to Mississippi before it was ...

This American chestnut tree, shown Nov. 11, 2021, at the Lake Erie Regional Grape Research and Extension Center, 662 N. Cemetery Road, North East Township, Erie County, shows evidence of chestnut ...

The chestnut tree is the main Kyiv tree, which has long been a symbol of the Ukrainian capital. But what did Khreshchatyk look like before the chestnut-lined alleys appeared? RBC-Ukraine offers a ...

Students in the Olympic High School B-3 Summer Program worked to prevent the extinction of the American chestnut tree. The American Chestnut Foundation says the chestnut blight, an Asian fungus ...

Chestnut trees are valued for their beauty, and many people want them. But few seedlings are available because of a devastating fungus. Steve Inskeep talks to Marshall Case, president of the ...

Some of the trees have started succumbing to blight. But researchers say the variation in resistance in each of the 150 trees could help them pinpoint which genes contribute to it.

Wild Georgia columnist Charles Seabrook hopes the two American chestnut seedlings planted in his backyard will be part of a once grand tree's comeback.

Four billion American chestnut trees were killed by a deadly fungus. In the quest for its revival, can scientists learn to build a better tree?