The man who boasts about gathering chestnuts as a barefoot boy is usually owning up to getting on in years. Nearly all U.S. chestnut trees were destroyed by a fast-spreading fungus disease which ...

Chestnut roasting was once as American as apple pie and hot dogs. Since the chestnut blight fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica) was introduced from Asia in the early 1900s, an estimated 3.5 billion ...