Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut. Bruce Beehler is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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