All Articles Tagged As: trees

Researchers Resurrect Extinct Judean Date Palm Tree from 2,000-Year-Old Seed (6/13/2008)

Researchers have brought an extinct date palm back to life by resurrecting the oldest seed ever ...> Full Article

Tree DNA helps support traditional view that some New Zealand plants were saved from catastrophic flood (1/15/2008)

Advanced DNA dating techniques used to analyse New Zealand kauri trees have led scientists to believe that New Zealand was never completely submerged. ...> Full Article

Scientists Aim To Sequence And Catalog Conifer Genes For Future Biofuels Research (8/23/2007)

Jeffrey Dean, professor of forest biotechnology in the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, is spearheading a project at the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) that will greatly expand the gene catalog for pines and initiate the first gene discovery efforts in five other conifer families. ...> Full Article

Ancient Dna Shows Greenland Was Conifer Forest 450,000 Years Ago (7/7/2007)

Ancient Greenland was green. New Danish research has shown that it was covered in conifer forest and had a relatively mild climate. Professor Eske Willerslev has analysed the world's oldest DNA, preserved under the kilometre-thick icecap. The DNA is likely close to half a million years old, and the research results are overturning all previous assumptions about biological life and the climate in Greenland. The results have just been published in Science. ...> Full Article

Scientists To Sequence Eucalyptus Genome (7/6/2007)

An ambitious international effort has been launched today to decode the genome of Eucalyptus, one of the world's most valuable fibre and paper-producing trees. ...> Full Article

Paleobotanist's Reconstruction What 380 Million Year Old Trees Looked Like (7/3/2007)

The prestigious British journal Nature this week published a Binghamton faculty member's new insights into the world's oldest trees. ...> Full Article

Researchers Demonstrate Way To Genetically Engineer The Height Of Trees (6/22/2007)

Forest scientists at Oregon State University have used genetic modification to successfully manipulate the growth in height of trees, showing that it's possible to create miniature trees that look similar to normal trees - but after several years of growth may range anywhere from 50 feet tall to a few inches. ...> Full Article

Fossilised Tree Mystery Solved (4/20/2007)

An international research team including a Cardiff expert has found evidence of the Earth’s earliest forest trees, dating back 385 million years. ...> Full Article