No, Darling American chestnuts are not hybrids. Hybrid trees have a blended genome from two related species, such as American chestnut and Chinese chestnut. In contrast, Darling trees retain all of ...

This hybrid breeding approach is slow work ... Its hybrids are about 15/16ths American chestnut and 1/16th Chinese chestnut. “To plant those 3,700 trees was a lot of work,” Darnell said.

Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern Hemisphere which begs the question, “What ...

Chestnut leaves (transgenic American, wild-type American, hybrid, or Chinese) were not detrimental to tadpole survival compared to sugar maple controls; only American beech leaves increased tadpole ...

The West Virginia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation reports that hybrid chestnut trees have already been planted at ...