At the intersection of synthetic biology and materials science, engineered living materials
(ELMs) exhibit unprecedented potential. Possessing unique “living” attributes, ELMs …

Phenotyping is the accurate and precise physical description of organisms. Accurate and
quantitative phenotyping underpins the delivery of benefits from genetic improvement …

Genetic improvement through breeding is one of the key approaches to increasing biomass
supply. This paper documents the breeding progress to date for four perennial biomass …

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

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 …

Bayesian Networks (BN) have been a popular predictive modeling formalism in
bioinformatics, but their application in modern genomics has been slowed by an inability to …

To understand the genetic mechanisms underlying wood anatomical and morphological
traits in Populus trichocarpa, we used 869 unrelated genotypes from a common garden in …

Populus species along with species from the sister genus Salix will provide valuable
feedstock resources for advanced second‐generation biofuels. Their inherent fast growth …

Polyploidy is a common observation in the genus Salix, including some of the shrub willow
species currently being bred as a potential bioenergy feedstock. Breeding of shrub willow …

Interactions between genes can have important consequences for how selection shapes
sequence variation at these genes. Specifically, genes that have pleiotropic effects by …