Regarding Hank Campbell’s “Science Saves an Old Chestnut” (op-ed, June 20): The American chestnut requires no artificial genetic rescue, and it is not rare. Throughout our eastern mountain forests, ...

The natural world is full of microbes, fungi, and plants that have given us valuable medicines, like tetracyclines, penicillin, and morphine. Researchers have now identified a molecule they called ...

An invasive fungus has killed billions of American chestnut trees since the early 1900s. Forestry experts in southeastern Ohio may have found a solution. His branches ruffle in the light breeze under ...

The American Chestnut Foundation, established in 1983, has developed a hybrid American chestnut that is resistant to blight. Since 2014, biotechnologists at the College of Environmental Science and ...

As the earth warms and the precipitation patterns change, trees are expected to migrate north seeking weather they are adapted to. Scientists project trees will need to move faster than their natural ...

Thank you for the article “Should We Bring Back the American Chestnut Tree?” (Post-Standard, July 28, 2019). It perfectly presented scientific content, science ethics and ecosystem issues that are ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — The once-prevalent American chestnut tree was wiped out of West Virginia by blight nearly 100 years ago, but you may be able to help with its restoration efforts. Photo from ...

Steve Bost will show you some Ozark chinquapin trees. “But I’d have to blindfold you before you get in the car,” he jokes. Deep in the rolling southeast Missouri Ozarks, Bost gets out of his car at ...

Before globalization and colonialism brought the invasive chestnut blight pathogen to American soils, for thousands of years, the Cherokee made a cough syrup from the leaves of the American chestnut ...

Walk through a local forest, and you’ll see a diverse assemblage of trees– tuliptrees reaching straight up into the sky, sassafras wiggling their trunks through the canopy, black cherries sporting ...

The chestnut tree, an emblematic species with both cultural and economic significance across Europe and Asia, faces considerable challenges due to a range of fungal diseases. Research in recent ...