Uncovering the genetic saga of Castanea trees, a pivotal study maps their evolutionary journey and local climate adaptations. This research pierces through the veil of time to reveal the genetic ...

Once a dominant tree throughout the Northeast, prized for the timber from its long, unbranched trunks, the American variety (Castanea dentata) stopped providing those famed chestnuts roasting on an ...

WASHINGTON — It's been a very long time since vendors sold the American chestnut on city sidewalks. It's no longer the variety whose smell some people associate with Christmastime as it wafts from ...

Foray Bioscience, a plant biomanufacturing company growing plant products from the cell up, today announced its first seed partnership with West Coast Chestnut, a leading tissue culture chestnut ...