No, Darling American chestnuts are not hybrids. Hybrid trees have a blended genome from two related species, such as American chestnut and Chinese chestnut. In contrast, Darling trees retain all of ...

The West Virginia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation reports that hybrid chestnut trees have already been planted at ...

Now, scientists are using a combination of techniques to develop blight-resistant trees from this remaining population. The American Chestnut Foundation recognizes you can’t improve what you can ...

The West Virginia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation reports that hybrid chestnut trees have already been planted at ...

Next we will start “diluting” the American chestnut characteristics through breeding to obtain a plant that is mostly Ozark chinquapin. This summer, we moved one step closer to our goal: we crossed ...

Can scientists and the Park Service bring back this iconic tree? At the end of the ... Memorial are about 94 percent American chestnut, the result of generations of backcrossing and intercrossing with ...

In this multi-part series, we will identify some of the tree species and describe some of their unique characteristics. Our first species is the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) sometimes called ...

Sunlight filtered through the overstory of a thick Pennsylvania forest and a few rays fell upon the long, serrated leaves of the American chestnut trees down below. The higher Mike Manes ...

Manager Hans Johsens said the Santa Cruz Mountains provide ideal growing conditions for American-hybrid and Japanese chestnut trees — the coastal fog and rain help sustain the trees, the air ...