Using carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as well as sunlight and water, hybrid poplar trees grow fast and tall, up to 12 feet per year. They also harbor a considerable amount of carbon in their stems ...
MINNEAPOLIS -- A fast-growing hybrid poplar tree farmers and businesses have planted on an estimated 30,000 acres in Minnesota since 1995 is starting to pop up across the state. Minnesota farmers were ...
The discovery of a hybrid population of poplar trees in western Wyoming has provided insight into how natural hybridization informs the evolution of many plant species, according to researchers. They ...
The hybrid poplar trees at the Boardman Tree Farm in eastern Oregon are in peak form for viewing. The remaining two-thirds of the 25,000 acre farm was sold earlier this year to an agricultural ...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- There's a new kind of crop growing on the farm that Charles Erickson's grandfather homesteaded near Alexandria. Erickson, a retired teacher, is raising hybrid poplar trees. He ...
Purdue University: Fighting pollution the poplar way: Trees to clean up Indiana site
Purdue University researchers are collaborating with Chrysler LLC in a project to use poplar trees to eliminate pollutants from a contaminated site in north-central Indiana. The researchers plan to ...
Science Daily: Discovery of a hybrid lineage offers clues to how trees adapt to climate change
Discovery of a hybrid lineage offers clues to how trees adapt to climate change
Forest geneticists have created genetically modified poplar trees that grow faster, have resistance to insect pests and are able to retain expression of the inserted genes for at least 14 years, a ...