Here are nine crunchy facts about everyone’s favourite festive ... The Romans planted chestnut trees across Europe Sweet chestnuts were an important part of the Roman diet.

Several decades later, we are seeking government approval to begin distributing the first blight-tolerant transgenic American chestnut. These trees were produced by inserting a gene called oxalate ...

As of the fall of 2013, we have planted 1275 transgenic chestnut trees at eight sites in New York State and one in Virginia. Based on field-trial inoculations, greenhouse small-stem inoculations and ...

The chestnut-backed chickadee is curious about humans, and spends the postbreeding and winter seasons foraging noisily in mixed-species flocks. Unlike other parids (except for the mountain ...