Climatic stresses limit plant growth and productivity. In the past decade, tree improvement
programs were mainly focused on yield but it is obvious that enhanced stress resistance is …

The biomass demand to fuel a growing global bio-based economy is expected to
tremendously increase over the next decades, and projections indicate that dedicated …

Phytotechnologies have been used worldwide to remediate and restore damaged
ecosystems, especially those caused by industrial byproducts leaching into rivers and other …

Stomata are essential for diffusive entry of gases to support photosynthesis, but may also
expose internal leaf tissues to pathogens. To uncover trade‐offs in range‐wide adaptation …

Developing a circular bioeconomy based on the sustainable use of biological resources,
such as biomass, seems to be the best way of responding to the challenges associated with …

The success of the production of renewable bioenergy with short-rotation coppice (SRC)
cultures primarily depends on their sustainability and biomass yield. The choice of the …

Using Populus feedstocks for biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts is becoming
economically feasible as global fossil fuel prices increase. Maximizing Populus biomass …

Height, basal diameter, diameter at breast height, bud burst, and leaf development were
recorded in a 5-year-old hybrid aspen clonal trial. The field trial consisted of four aspen …

Twelve poplar (Populus) clones, belonging to different species and interspecific hybrids,
were studied during the third growing season of the second rotation of a high density …

Ecological research has increasingly highlighted the importance of intraspecific variation in
shaping the structure and function of communities and ecosystems. Indeed, the effects of …