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 ...

At one time there were billions of American chestnuts in the Appalachian Mountains. Today, because of chestnut blight, ...

These sweet potatoes are very American, growing well from North to South. Japanese sweet potatoes are ... close to that of a ...