Blight-resistant American chestnut trees nearing reality
Friday, December 5, 2008 - 14:14
in Earth & Climate
(PhysOrg.com) -- The demise of the American chestnut is one of the great ecological disasters of our time, according to a chestnut expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, who envisions a day in the not-so-distant future when the huge trees will again be growing in American forests.