DULUTH — It’s been said that the true meaning of life is planting a tree "under whose shade you do not expect to sit," a hint, of course, that you’ll likely be dead before the tree gets that tall. But ...

From left, ORNL's Biruk Feyissa holds a five-month-old poplar tree expressing high levels of the BOOSTER gene, while colleague Wellington Muchero holds a tree of the same age with lower expression of ...

Throughout Madison County, much of our forest is dominated by a tall, pale-barked tree that grows ramrod straight. Often called “yellow poplar” by loggers and sawmill owners, it’s also known as “tulip ...

The roots of that big tree in your yard may be infiltrating your underground plumbing right now. If the species is shallow-rooted, it's even more likely.

SEBEKA, Minn. -- While researchers rush to develop new biomass sources for cellulosic ethnanol, Minnesota for a decade has been working on short-rotation, intensive of culture trees for energy and ...

Scientists at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology and VIVES University College have developed a new method to genetically improve poplar trees without introducing foreign DNA into its ...

I have a poplar tree in my backyard that is 1 1/2 years old. Over the past year and a half it has done a few funny things. Upon planting it, the leaves went yellow in the summer. I think we were over ...

CORVALLIS, Mont. — One-hundred-twenty some years ago, copper magnate Marcus Daly spearheaded the planting of thousands of trees in the Bitterroot Valley. His specially chosen poplar trees would ...