Research in forest tree species has advanced slowly when compared with other agricultural
crops and model organisms, mainly due to the long‐life cycles, large genome sizes, and …

The past decade saw the initiation of an ongoing revolution in sequencing technologies that
is transforming all fields of biology. This has been driven by the advent and widespread …

Poplar (Populus) lignin is naturally acylated with p-hydroxybenzoate ester moieties.
However, the enzyme (s) involved in the biosynthesis of the monolignol–p …

Populus has been investigated as a promising biomass feedstock for alternative fuels and
chemicals. Physicochemical characteristics and genomic information of biomass feedstocks …

Natural hybrid zones in forest trees provide systems to study the transfer of adaptive genetic
variation by introgression. Previous landscape genomic studies in Populus trichocarpa, a …

Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have been used extensively to dissect the
genetic regulation of complex traits in plants. These studies have focused largely on the …

The lignin biosynthetic pathway is highly conserved in angiosperms, yet pathway
manipulations give rise to a variety of taxon-specific outcomes. Knockout of lignin …

Metal tolerance proteins (MTPs) as Me2+/H+ (K+) antiporters participate in the transport of
divalent cations, leading to heavy metal stress resistance and mineral utilization in plants. In …

Woody perennial angiosperms (ie, hardwood trees) are polyphyletic in origin and occur in
most angiosperm orders. Despite their independent origins, hardwoods have shared …

Carbohydrate‐active enzymes (CAZ ymes) catalyze the formation and modification of
glycoproteins, glycolipids, starch, secondary metabolites and cell wall biopolymers. They are …