These plants are fan favorites, but there's one problem: you shouldn't be growing them close to your home. Find out what ...

Some other Minnesota trees in the populus genus include the ... and the non-native white poplar (populus alba) and Lombardy poplar (populus nigra). All told, there are over 40 species of populus ...

The authors modified the genetics of poplar trees to reduce the amount of lignin—an organic component that acts as the backbone to give trees its rigid and woody structure. By reducing the ...

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 ...

By Gabriel Popkin Photographs by Audra Melton On Monday, in a low-lying tract of southern Georgia’s pine belt, a half-dozen workers planted row upon row of twig-like poplar trees. These weren ...

Steven Strauss was skeptical when he first heard about a poplar tree bioengineered to suck more carbon dioxide out of the air. The forest biotechnology expert knew that trees are difficult to ...

Anyone with a poplar tree growing near their house is probably familiar with the massive volume of offspring produced by these trees in the fall. From October to the middle of winter, my ...

Unusual species are included such as the dawn redwood, the copper beech, the Lombardy poplar, the Italian alder ... it would be planting more 5,000 new trees by March. The authority added online ...