But the hurdle to true sustainability in engineered wood is that it requires processing with volatile chemicals and a significant amount of energy, and produces considerable waste. The researchers ...

There are already a range of engineered and modified wood products on the market. Take glulam, or glue-laminated timber, in ...

More specifically, the authors write, “by soaking this [genetically modified] wood in water and hot pressing, we achieved a tensile strength of 313.6 ± 6.4 MPa, 5.6 times higher than that of ...

Two genome-edited poplar trees on the right, and one wild-type tree on the left. Credit: University of Maryland Trees play a big role in the fight against climate change: They can soak up carbon ...

Domestic wood. Domestic wood comes from trees that are grown and processed in the United States. Common domestic wood species include oak, maple, cherry, walnut, ash, poplar and pine.

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Florian Lafarguette, , , , Guy Costa, Marie-Claude Lesage-Descauses, Gilles Pilate, Poplar Genes Encoding Fasciclin-Like Arabinogalactan Proteins Are Highly Expressed in Tension Wood, The New ...