SilvaBio

Develops and sells disease-tolerant hardwood seedlings, led by a blight-tolerant American chestnut, using genomics and micropropagation.

Planting & silvicultureUnited States

SilvaBio is a public benefit company that develops and supplies disease-tolerant hardwood seedlings, with a lead product aimed at restoring the American chestnut. It licenses the Darling 54 blight-tolerant chestnut, which the USDA deregulated in August 2026, and works with Foray Bioscience on fabricated seeds. It combines genomic prediction, speed breeding and micropropagation, and plans disease-resistant ash and elm seedlings.

What Boreal Tech Brief reported

  1. #05628 Jul 2026 · News

    SilvaBio pairs blight-resistant chestnut with lab-grown seed

    SilvaBio's blight-tolerant Darling 54 chestnut line is getting paired with Foray Bioscience's fabricated seeds, plant embryos grown from cells and encapsulated to sow like ordinary seed. The goal is enough disease-resistant seedlings to restock the species' 200-million-acre range.