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A high school state champion multiple times over, Brown won the annual Gum Tree 10K on Saturday morning in Tupelo. He hit the finish line in 32 minutes, 42 seconds, a full half-minute ahead of ...
Scientists at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology and VIVES University College have developed a new method to genetically improve poplar trees without introducing foreign DNA into its ...
The National Trust is creating a “living library” gene bank of trees in East Devon to help protect the black poplar. The black poplar was once as common as oak and beech, but the drainage of ...
Petersburg’s City Council voted Tuesday to approve a partnership between the city and Virginia State University that would grant the city $56,000 to improve the tree canopy and provide educational ...
In some cases, a tree's common name is derived from its primary autumn leaf color, such as red maple and yellow poplar ... Dogwoods, black tupelo trees, sourwood trees, persimmons, and some ...
Netflix’s three-episode, limited series “The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga” premiered last week, recounting one of Mississippi’s most recent and widely reported national crimes ...
A team of scientists from the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Center for Bioenergy Innovation at Oak Ridge National ...
TUPELO — Santa’s local little helpers now have their opportunity to give back to the community with the annual Salvation Army Angel Tree program. Tuesday morning saw the kickoff of the local ...
In the summer of 1976, a simple poplar tree standing in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) became the unlikely catalyst for one of the tensest military escalations between the United States and ...
It's hard not to stare at the giant tulip poplar tree in Greenville's Hessie T. Morrah Park, especially for Ako Matsuzaki. It's the tree she always admired while walking her dog Mochi. And because ...
Researchers at the University of Maryland genetically modified poplar trees to produce high-performance, structural wood without the use of chemicals or energy intensive processing. Made from ...