To grow up the wood in a test tube: in FEDERAL STATE-FUNDED INSTITUTION "SPBNIILKH" create "supertrees"

pixabay.com/ru/users/MabelAmber the Science continued walks forward: experts the St. Petersburg research institutes forestry (FEDERAL STATE-FUNDED INSTITUTION "SPBNIILKH") develop fast-growing "supertrees" which are capable to survive in adverse conditions and are characterized by the improved qualities of wood. The improved trees are created with help a method of genomic editing. As reports newspaper "Argumenty i fakty", having strengthened or, on the contrary, having weakened this or that site of a genome of a plant, scientists can change its qualities, including — to increase or reduce wood density, to make...