and it is a relative of the American chestnut — a relative that seems to be mostly impervious to the deadly fungus mentioned ...

Chinese chestnut trees need full sun ... First off is the red buckeye (Aesculus pavia), a small tree that's native to a long span of the Eastern U.S. and has gorgeous reddish-pink blooms that ...

American chestnut is highly susceptible to the fungus which enters the tree through any small wound or crack in the bark. The fungus replicates beneath the bark and produces toxins which lead to plant ...

In the "very-small-stem-assay", both the Ellis American control and the Chinese chestnut died, while both the Darling American chestnut trees survived. The Chinese chestnut died in that assay because ...

In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces you to chestnut oak, sometimes called rock chestnut oak. It is an oak species commonly found in the southern part of ...

Controlled inoculations of chestnut stems with the blight fungus have confirmed that Darling trees with OxO have consistently smaller cankers than their non-transgenic relatives. View time-lapse video ...

[via Inhabitat] Between logging and the introduction of chestnut ... of “small stem assays (SSAs) performed on potted seedlings, improved phenotype scoring methods for field-grown trees, and ...