is to conduct basic and applied research that will lead to the development of blight-tolerant American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata). Our goal is to reintroduce a population of these tolerant ...

[via Inhabitat] Between logging and the introduction of chestnut blight ... performed on potted seedlings, improved phenotype scoring methods for field-grown trees, and the use of genomic ...

An additional step, regeneration, is needed for embryo tissue culture. To enhance blight resistance in the American chestnut tree, we are studying several gene products, regulatory regions of genes to ...

Biblins Youth Campsite is one of the recipients of the 49 saplings, grown from seeds rescued from the tree that stood next to Hadrian's wall until it was chopped down illegally last year.

From a seedling Robert Hawkins ... The original tree Frank wrote about was one of the oldest chestnut trees in Amsterdam — an estimated 170 years old, according to Anne Frank Center USA ...