Conventional breeding of trees takes time, but CRISPR gene editing should help speed things up. Now, scientists at North Carolina State University have used CRISPR to adjust the genomes of poplar ...

Two genome-edited poplar trees on the right, and one wild-type tree on the left. Credit: University of Maryland Trees play a big role in the fight against climate change: They can soak up carbon ...

image: At left, overall dominance of microbiome assembly processes (see legend) for archaea and bacteria (A) and fungi (C). Right, relative dominance of same assembly processes in each habitat-sample ...