Darling-58 sprouts, a transgenic American chestnut created by ESF researchers, grow in a nutrient solution. Darling 54, a ...

Transgenic Darling-58 American chestnut seedlings grow in containers at ESF's Lafayette Experimental Field Station. It later turned out the seedlings were actually Darling-54 variants.

Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American ...

Stephen Zuk tills the soil to prepare for chestnut tree planting on his property in Cressona, Friday, June 20, 2025. The planting is part of an effort to develop a hybrid, crossbred with a Chinese ...

Jim Brady discovered an American chestnut tree on his property in Olean. It sparked his quest fighting against a 200-year-old blight to revive a species that once numbered in the billions and ...

The American chestnuts (Castanea dentata) were once a dominant tree species within the eastern U.S. forests, comprising up to 25 percent of the trees in parts of its natural range. A century ago, the ...

She said, “In 2025, One Acre Fund, Nigeria aims to reach 471,700 smallholder farmers across the three states of Nasarawa, Kwara and Niger with 12.5 million tree seedlings.

In 2018, Erie County, which owns Chestnut Ridge Park, planted about 50 American chestnut trees, including about a dozen near the on-ramp into the park’s main road. They are short, with wiry stems.

Edward F. Gilman's 1991 paper, "Dispelling Misperceptions About Trees," said that "roots on one side of trees such as oaks and mahogany generally supply the same side of the tree" with water and ...