Researchers performing a genome-wide association study of poplar trees have discovered a key ... into the chemical energy they need to prosper. Hybrid poplars, which are a combination of different ...

they have planted poplar trees at a site called Peter's Pond in central Indiana. Chrysler worked with Purdue Associate Professor Rick Meilan develop a new hybrid variety of poplar that can absorb ...

Among his many accomplishments was the discovery that hybrids of the Pacific Northwest native black cottonwood and eastern ...

From their genetic makeup, to his experiments that sparked a hybrid poplar boom in Washington and Oregon, where the trees are still visible in plantations growing all over the Northwest.