Duke Farms researchers are keeping track of about 270 chestnut trees — a mix of hybrids, the American chestnut and its Chinese counterpart — that are growing in a forested area of the late ...

These trees have built-in blight resistance, but don’t grow tall enough to compete with the oaks in our forests. Dalgleish added that the European and Chinese chestnuts do make excellent orchard trees ...

Guoliang Wang, Fang Liu, Sha Xue, Nitrogen addition enhanced water uptake by affecting fine root morphology and coarse root anatomy of Chinese pine seedlings, Plant and Soil, Vol. 418, No. 1/2, Part I ...

In this Jan. 20, 2011 photo, Dennis Melican, who works at Moore State Park in Paxton, Mass., poses on the limbs of a chestnut tree in the park’s plantation.

That tree, which is half American and half Chinese chestnut, is then put through a process called backcrossing. Basically, F1 is crossed to multiple generations of American chestnut to whittle the ...

The chestnut was unaffected by frost, making it the single most important food source for a variety of wild life, according to the American Chestnut Foundation.