Scientists discover entirely new wood type that could aid carbon storage
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Researchers from the University of Cambridge, UK, have discovered a new type of wood that could enhance carbon sequestration efforts.
Researchers decipher mysterious growth habit of weeping peach trees
A recent study published in Plant Physiology unveils that a single gene deletion affecting the hormone auxin’s distribution causes the unique downward growth of weeping peach tree shoots, challenging conventional plant growth patterns.
Rare 3D fossils show that some early trees had forms unlike any you’ve ever seen
From Cell Press 03/02/24 In the fossil record, trees typically are preserved with only their trunks. They don’t usually include any leaves to show what their canopies and overall forms may have looked like. But now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on February 2 describe fossilized trees from New Brunswick, Canada with a […]