Wood is almost as important to humanity as food, and the natural forests from which most of
it is harvested from are of enormous environmental value. However, these slow-growing …

New Zealand (NZ) is a small country with an export-led economy with above 90% of primary
production exported. Plant-based primary commodities derived from the pastoral …

We have generated transgenic plants in which the flower-meristem-identity gene LEAFY of
Arabidopsis is constitutively expressed. LEAFY is sufficient to determine floral fate in lateral …

The MADS-box encodes a novel type of DNA-binding domain found so far in a diverse
group of transcription factors from yeast, animals, and seed plants. Here, our first aim was to …

Over 430 alien tree species worldwide are known to be invasive, and the list is growing as
more tree species are moved around the world and become established in novel …

Scott Prudham investigates a region that has in recent years seen more environmental
conflict than perhaps anywhere else in the country--the old-growth forests of the Pacific …

Aim A range of approaches and philosophies underpin national‐level strategies for
managing invasive alien plants. This study presents a strategy for the management of taxa …

PTLF, the Populus trichocarpa homolog of LEAFY (LFY) and FLORICAULA, was cloned to
assess its function in a dioecious tree species. In situ hybridization studies showed that the …

Population biologists have generally assumed that reproduction entails a reduction in
growth, future reproduction, and/or increase in mortality: such “costs of reproduction” are …

Relative to crop plants, the domestication of forest trees is still in its infancy. For example, the
domestication of many crop plants was initiated some 10 000 years ago in the so‐called …