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 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 ...

The massive genome sequence of the loblolly pine—the most commercially important tree species in the United States and the source of most American paper products—has been completed by a nationwide ...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is working to restore longleaf pine trees in Bogue Chitto State Park.

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 ...

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 ...

Witch's brooms are compact, rounded collections of short needles and small cones. They can sometimes make up the entire leafy crown of a tree. Staff at North Carolina State University are asking for ...

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 ...

Burdeaux is a musician and lives in North Park. In February 1988, in the front yard of a single-family home in Santa Ana, a soon-to-be dad planted a loblolly pine tree. His wife was in the yard with ...

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 ...

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 ...

The massive genome sequence of the loblolly pine — the most commercially important tree species in the United States and the source of most American paper products — has been completed by a nationwide ...