The giant loblolly pine tree that looms over my yard and the yards of the next door neighbor and the neighbor down the driveway, is a pine for the ages. Its four huge arms, each as big around as an ...

The loblolly pine — whose genome is the largest ever sequenced — is the most commercially important tree species in the US and the source of most American paper products. The massive ...

U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists co-authored the article published today in the journal Genome Biology that reports the sequencing, assembly, and annotation of the ...

BETHESDA, MD – MARCH 20, 2014 – The massive genome of the loblolly pine—around seven times bigger than the human genome—is the largest genome sequenced to date and the most complete conifer genome ...

The phrase "sequencing a genome" misleads. It makes the process sound so straightforward: A simple sequence of events leads to a sequenced genome. First, take the DNA that makes up the genome. Spool ...

The massive genome of the loblolly pine -- around seven times bigger than the human genome -- is the largest genome sequenced to date and the most complete conifer genome sequence ever published. This ...

A giant among trees, the loblolly pine boasts the largest set of genetic blueprints published to date. Even though it’s big on DNA letters, the pine’s instruction book lacks originality: About 82 ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Forestry experts from ArborGen are partnering with local Mississippi State University agricultural extension offices to answer questions about growing pine trees, ...

There haven't been many feel-good stories to come out of the decimation of the lost pine forests in the Bastrop area near Austin two summers ago. Those wildfires were a memorably hellish combination ...

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Geneticists have finally assembled the genome of the huge loblolly pine. With more than 23 billion base pairs, it's seven times the size of a human's, and the largest one ever sequenced. But what ...