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… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The … cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence … when the fungus is present. The Impact Black cottonwood, or poplar, ( Populus trichocarpa ) is the fastest growing …

… willow and its close relative  Populus trichocarpa,  or the poplar tree, are potential biofuel feedstocks of interest to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers … willow’s sex chromosomes, so the researchers investigated poplar for which genes might be shared in common between …