More than a century after a disease first spotted at the Bronx Zoo helped wipe out billions of American chestnut trees across ...

The Bronx Zoo is bringing back a long-lost tree to the park. Twenty-five hybrid American chestnut trees are being planted ...

American chestnut restoration efforts are underway, with researchers discovering how compounds in Chinese chestnuts resist ...

MCGRAW, NY / ACCESS Newswire / April 25, 2026 / Today, SilvaBio, in collaboration with academic partners, reports findings from four independent experiments demonstrating that transgenic American ...

The American chestnut is returning to the Bronx Zoo more than 120 years after blight was first documented there. The zoo and ...

The American chestnut tree, once a regal pillar of forests across the eastern United States, is on life support, struggling to survive. "These look like death," said Vasiliy Lakoba, research director ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sweet Chestnut Blight can cause significant dieback and tree death [PA Media] The risk of Sweet Chestnut Blight spreading has ...

In the summer of 1904, American chestnut trees in the Bronx were in trouble. Leaves, normally slender and brilliantly green, were curling at the edges and turning yellow. Some tree limbs and trunks ...

Emily Dobry, a master’s candidate in horticulture at Penn State Behrend, and Bryan Hed, a plant pathologist at the Lake Erie Regional Grape Research and Extension Center, stand Nov. 11, 2021, between ...

The risk of Sweet Chestnut Blight spreading has increased significantly in parts of south-west England, the Forestry Commission has said. Restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of the disease ...