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… The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the fastest growing trees in the Northern … remarkable genetic secrets that bring us closer to making poplar an economical and sustainable source of energy and …

… 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 …

… of genetic switches implicated in developmental and disease processes in the human genome. In addition to his … Targeted deletion of the 9p21 non-coding coronary artery disease risk interval in mice . Nature 464, 409-12. Visel A …

… 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 …

… our own applications. Nowadays, we talk about antibiotic resistance, and I was talking to my daughters– what did they … years. Would natural products be important for antibiotic resistance, or for something else? So it’s important that …