Soil salinity is a widespread stress in semi-arid forests worldwide, but how to manage nitrogen (N) nutrition to improve plant saline tolerance remains unclear. Here, the cuttings of a widely distributed poplar from central Asia, Populus russikki …
A major challenge in the development of novel industrial woody crops lies in the trade-offs underlying plant growth, wood quality and abiotic stress tolerance. Single gene modifications in perennial species often lead to improvements in only one of …