Encountering this young chestnut made me wonder about science’s effort to bring back “America’s tree.” The world’s nine species of chestnuts range from Europe and North America to East Asia.

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 ...

and throughout the American chestnut's range, we need to maintain a genetically diverse population of American chestnuts to ...

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...

Once the most prominent tree in the state, West Virginia was the only state entirely within the American chestnut’s natural ...

The American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project team remains committed to chestnut and tree restoration research, building off nearly 35 years of dedicated work and study. Our research so far ...