Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) is considered one of the tallest ...

When our son was younger, he would collect the bright yellow leaves as they dropped from the towering tulip poplars in our yard in the fall. He considered them golden treasures and insisted on taping ...

After 30 years, the NRRI unveiled the Innovatree in late July, and it’s become quite the popular Poplar tree. The Hauser’s Superior View Farm in Ashland said they were sold out of the NRRI’s popular ...

Researchers seeking to improve production of ethanol from woody crops have a new resource in the form of an extensive molecular map of poplar tree proteins. Researchers seeking to improve production ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland genetically modified poplar trees to produce high-performance, structural wood without the use of chemicals or energy intensive processing. Made from ...

image: At left, overall dominance of microbiome assembly processes (see legend) for archaea and bacteria (A) and fungi (C). Right, relative dominance of same assembly processes in each habitat-sample ...

My wife and I have been Fairfax Station South Run Regency residents for more than 25 years. I’ve always been intrigued by the history of the community. However, reality indicates there are very few ...

Similar to genetic mutations, epigenetic changes, i.e. gene modifications that do not occur on the primary DNA sequence, sometimes arise accidentally in plants and can be transmitted across ...

UPTON, NY - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have applied some of the same techniques used in medical imaging to track the distribution of nutrients in ...

There is an abundance of green flakes coating the sidewalks and cars right now, and it seems hard to avoid the white cottony tufts in the air lately. There's green film on the waters along the shores ...