There is momentum, globally, to increase the use of plant biomass for the production of heat,
power and liquid transport fuels. This review assesses the evidence base for potential …

Association mapping is rapidly becoming the main method for dissecting the genetic
architecture of complex traits in plants. Currently most association mapping studies in plants are …

Conifers have dominated forests for more than 200 million years and are of huge ecological
and economic importance. Here we present the draft assembly of the 20-gigabase genome …

• Limited information on likely supply and spatial yield of bioenergy crops exists for the UK.
Here, productivities are reported of poplar (Populus spp.) and willow (Salix spp.) grown as …

Accessing and exploring large-scale genomics data sets remains a significant challenge to
researchers without specialist bioinformatics training. We present the integrated PlantGenIE. …

The genetic nature of tree adaptation to drought stress was examined by utilizing variation
in the drought response of a full‐sib second generation (F 2 ) mapping population from a …

Background An increased understanding of leaf area development is important in a number
of fields: in food and non-food crops, for example short rotation forestry as a biofuels …

Although hundreds of plant lineages have independently evolved dioecy (that is, separation
of the sexes), the underlying genetic basis remains largely elusive 1 . Here we show that …

• Populus has become an important model plant system. However, utilization of the
increasingly extensive collection of genetics and genomics data created by the community is …

Trees represent the largest terrestrial carbon sink and a renewable source of ligno-cellulose.
There is significant scope for yield and quality improvement in these largely …