DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has ...

The emerald ash borer has decimated ash trees in New York, which once comprised 7 percent of the biomass of the state’s forests. David Cappaert.

Research suggests new generation of young ash trees showing greater resistance to ash dieback fungus than adult trees.

Dutch elm disease started devastating European elms in the Netherlands in 1919 and was first detected in New York in 1933. By World War II, it had spread throughout the Northeast, according to the ...

It’s not just humans. Trees also suffer plagues. In the past 120 years, voracious insects and fungi have swept across North America with frightening regularity, laying low the chestnut, the elm ...

Protecting New York's forests. The U.S. Forest Service has found selective breeding of lingering ash trees can lead to offspring that are highly resistant to emerald ash borers within two ...

New York state, as any upstate resident will tell you, is a lot more than New York City. It’s rolling hills, rivers and lakes, bucolic farmland and acres of forests. In fact, of the state’s 30 ...