While there is controversy over genetic engineering, some scientists say it could also help fight climate change by creating trees that grow bigger, faster, resist disease and can even turn carbon ...

A genetic tree as a movie: Moving beyond the still portrait of ancestry Date: March 27, 2025 Source: University of Michigan Summary: Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a ...

Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park is located in the Carmanah Valley on Vancouver Island. It is home to old growth trees including groves of giant Sitka spruce, which include some of Canada's tallest.

UBC researchers scraped bark and collected needles from 20 of these trees last summer, sending the samples to a lab for DNA sequencing. Results, published recently in Evolution Letters, showed that a ...

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Ecologist David Carr and seed collector Steve Field believe a lack of genetic diversity is threatening the survival of some large-scale tree plantings With tens of millions of trees and shrubs ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...