Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration
• Science, Volume 391, Issue 6786, Page 730-735, February 2026.
Chestnut
Bringing the 'functionally extinct' American chestnut back from the dead
• American chestnut nearly wiped out by two Asian fungal pathogens, killing ~3 billion trees. • Fungus kills saplings before they can seed, leaving chestnut functionally extinct in