The Castanea Township Recreation Committee and Supervisors announced plans for the Second Annual Pennsylvania Chestnut ...

A startup called American Castanea has joined the quest to revive the American chestnut tree, the first step in its plan to give forests a genetic upgrade. Under a slice-of-heaven sky, 150 acres of ...

American chestnut (Castanea dentata) once dominated nearly 200 million acres of land in the eastern Appalachian forests of the United States. They comprised approximately 25% of the overstory ...

In Sicily, chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) is present at altitudes that run from 300 to 1600 m asl and, due to the extreme variability of the environmental conditions, a large autochthonous germplasm ...

The loss of American chestnut trees, Castanea denatata, ranks as one of the most devastating botanical disasters in U.S. history. Before the introduction of chestnut blight in 1904, there were over 4 ...

Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 20, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHESTNUT (2006), pp. 96-100 (5 pages) DNA analysis was used to characterize the chestnut germplasm grown or endangered in the region ...

Although many Americans still associate the winter holidays with chestnuts, the tree that once produced them — the American chestnut — no longer does so, except in a few rare cases. During the first ...

Perhaps the most quoted line about a chestnut tree in all of American history is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Under the spreading chestnut tree/The village smithy stands” from “The Village Blacksmith ...