In the late 1800s, a foreign fungus arrived in North America, leading to the demise of a once-great native tree species that ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Alcoa Highway, just five miles south of the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Campus, is the East Tennessee Research Education Center-Plant Sciences Unit, a 212-acre field ...

Conserving Carolina is working to transform an abandoned golf course in Etowah back to its original state by reintroducing the butternut tree.

Butternuts are soft and oily, with a light walnut flavor that lingers on the tongue. But few Americans have tasted this endangered native. Now, University of Connecticut undergraduates have published ...