The chestnut blight secretes a searing chemical ... cut a little hole in the trees, injected a piece of the blight from the Petri dish into the tree, and put a piece of tape around the blight ...

Remove and discard top parchment paper sheet. Cut butter into approximately 1/3-inch pieces. Place chestnut paste in bowl of a heavy-duty stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment. Beat on medium ...

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.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Kyra LoPiccolo crouched in front of a small, white foam box under the hot summer sun. She opened the cooler and from the ice plucked a tiny vial of pollen — a potential salve ...

A recent opinion piece in The Hill expressed concerns held by opponents of the release of GE blight-tolerant chestnut trees, so I will try to address those concerns and provide insight into the ...

What happened to the American chestnut tree? : Short Wave In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ...