Three cDNAs (PgEMB22, 27 and 29) predicted to encode low-molecular-weight (LMW) heat-shock proteins (HSPs) were cloned and characterized from white spruce [Picea glauca (Moench) Voss] somatic embryo ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 100, No. 8 (August 2013), pp. 1651-1662 (12 pages) Premise of the study: Historic colonization and contemporary evolutionary processes contribute to patterns of ...

White spruce, scientific name Picea glauca, is one of the trees that many people refer to as a pine tree. Although spruce trees are from the same genetic family as pines, they are distinct and ...

Genetic analysis of white spruce trees at sites across North America suggest that that species endured the harsh climate of Alaska throughout the last ice age, a notion that scientists have debated ...

The original Christmas tree was a Spruce, which is distinguished by its cone shape and whorled branches. The needles of a Spruce are attached singly to the branches rather than in bunches, in a spiral ...

Your Christmas tree may dwarf you not only in height but in its genome. At 20 billion bases of DNA, the newly sequenced genome of the Norway spruce, a popular Christmas tree in Europe that can reach ...