The potato blight, caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora infestans, triggered a famine that killed over a million people and forced millions more to flee. For over a century, scientists ...

In Fairmount Park, according to a 1911 Inquirer story, 1,000 chestnut trees died from blight. Scientists, at the time, concluded that the blight had come to the U.S. in the late 1800s from imports ...

The mission of the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is to conduct basic and applied research ...