The amino acid phenylalanine (Phe) is a critical metabolic node that plays an essential role
in the interconnection between primary and secondary metabolism in plants. Phe is used as …

In light of impending water and arable land shortages, population growth and climate
change, it is more important than ever to examine how forest tree domestication can be …

Here, through single‐molecule real‐time sequencing, we present a high‐quality genome
sequence of the Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi), a conifer species with great value for …

Conifers (softwoods) naturally lack syringyl units in their lignins, rendering lignocellulosic
materials from such species more difficult to process than syringyl-rich hardwood species …

Cultivated hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida var. major) is an important medicinal and edible
plant with a long history of use for health protection in China. Herein, we provide a de novo …

The conifers are a diverse and ancient group of seed plants of monophyletic origin that
arose more than 300 million years ago (Rothwell and Scheckler 1988). They are uniformly …

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 differential expression of metabolites in wood-forming tissue in response to abiotic
stresses might regulate or decide the cell wall contents and architecture via multiple …

The global change scenarios highlight the urgency of clarifying the mechanisms driving the
determination of wood traits in forest trees. Coniferous xylem is characterized by the …

There is a wide diversity of bioinformatic tools available for the assembly of next generation
sequence and subsequence variant calling to identify genetic markers at scale. Integration …