One way to save the American chestnut could be hybridization, the cross-pollination of American chestnuts with Japanese and Chinese varieties. Another technique being used in Syracuse involves the ...

T he pathogen that killed off the American chestnut arrived before 1900, carried on Japanese chestnut saplings imported for ...

Manager Hans Johsens said the Santa Cruz Mountains provide ideal growing conditions for American-hybrid and Japanese chestnut trees — the coastal fog and rain help sustain the trees, the air ...