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

From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

[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 ...