After 30 years, the NRRI unveiled the Innovatree in late July, and it’s become quite the popular Poplar tree. The Hauser’s Superior View Farm in Ashland said they were sold out of the NRRI’s popular ...

COLUMBIA, Miss. — A new study, led by researchers at the University of Missouri, has uncovered how poplar trees can naturally adjust a key part of their wood chemistry based on changes in their ...

Next, the team used CRISPR to genetically engineer 174 lines of poplar trees following those seven recipes, and grew them in a greenhouse for six months. And sure enough, many varieties met and even ...

A tree species that has battled nearly a century of disease once thrived among the vegetation at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. The trees are getting a chance to thrive again. Poplar Forest staff ...

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A team of scientists at two Department of Energy Bioenergy Research Centers have identified a gene in a poplar tree that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height by about 30 percent in the ...

If you’ve seen headlines of tomatoes with a spicy kick and mushrooms that won’t brown, it comes as no surprise genetic engineering is providing a means for us to reshape nature in ways that would ...