Current varieties, referred to as 'Darling' chestnuts, shows enhanced tolerance to chestnut blight thanks to a common gene that we inserted into their genome. We hope to return these trees can be ...

If you see a fully-mature red horse chestnut in bloom ... there are several types. All are flowering trees native to the U.S. These trees often have multiple trunks and may only grow from 10 ...

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 ...

Once a hallmark of forests from Georgia to New England, American chestnuts now exist mostly as a vast network of root systems ...

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ecologically devastating. Short Wave host Emily Kwong dives ...