One of the key findings in recent studies is the identification of Gnomoniopsis smithogilvyi as a major cause of brown rot in chestnut fruits in various regions, including Chile and Spain.

Two images from the field show a chestnut sprout and a close up of the fungus. The canker fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, is responsible for widespread loss of American chestnut trees from the ...

Thus it seemed reasonable that removing the oxalate from the blight fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica) might make it less harmful to the chestnut tree. To see how reduced oxalate affects the fungus' ...

The fungus would grow in wounds in the tree bark, causing blisters that blocked the flow of sap and slowly killed the trees.

Founding members of the New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation approached Dr. William Powell ... It protects the tree by breaking down a toxin created by the blight fungus. The OxO gene ...

The fungus would grow in wounds in the tree bark, causing blisters that blocked the flow of sap and slowly killed the tree.

Flight 93 staff have partnered with scientists and foresters from the American Chestnut Foundation to plant seedlings they hope will be the first in more than a century to withstand an invasive fungus ...