After more than a century of devastation from deadly blight, the iconic American chestnut tree could be brought back from the brink of extinction thanks to novel genomic tools and carefully bred ...

Long-lived woody perennial plants, such as forest trees, offer the possibility of understanding fundamental aspects of plant biology, such as the genetic basis of longevity and adaptation to the ...

PULLMAN, Wash. - A meeting in a forest between a biologist and a mathematician could lead to thicker, faster growing trees. "Mathematicians like translating biological processes into numbers," said ...

What are your research topics? I primarily investigate the genetic diversity, evolution and adaptation of trees. Genetic diversity is studied through both phenotype, or measurable characteristics, and ...

Howell — Jason Hartman stabbed a flat spade into the ground at a Livingston County orchard on a hot April morning, moving just enough earth to tuck the roots of a 2-year-old red pine sapling into the ...