Hope you have a great stroll through your garden this week and as you look at the leaves in your yard think about the hope that one day you may also see new American chestnut trees beginning to grow ...

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 ...

Yet others sprouted curling, brown leaves. And in some plots ... McKenna, a retired U.S. Forest Service tree breeder who ...

When the chestnut blight, native to Asia, arrived in New York City around 1904, it spread at a rate of 50 miles a year.

And now a checkup of sorts on the American chestnut, a tree that was a big part of forests in the eastern United States until 1904, when a fungus from Asia started killing them. Since the 1920s ...

Hundreds of conservation organizations, universities, government agencies, businesses and individuals are working to restore the “functionally extinct” American chestnut tree, according to a ...

I received this question from Adam on Instagram and I felt that many gardeners would have similar queries. So I’ve decided to ...

SINGAPORE - A large tree fell in Chestnut Avenue on April 13, crushing a white sedan that was parked beside it. Dashcam footage of the incident showed car’s bonnet and roof crushed by the fallen ...

David leaves behind daughters Leah (Scott) Herold of Elgin, Illinois and Lindsay Chestnut (Sean Monroe) of Baltimore, Maryland; stepdaughters Tara (Jacob) Kuebler of Savoy, Jordan Harris of Cedar ...

We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut trees they hope will one day fight off a fungus that's been killing the iconic American tree for more than a century.