A recent report in the scientific journal Nature Genetics 49: 904–12 (May 2017), doi:10.1038/ng.3862, disclosed the results of genomic DNA sequencing and analysis of Betula pendula, the silver birch ...

THE elegant silver birch tree in my back garden helps define the changing seasons. Nut and seed-filled feeders currently hang from its leafless pendulous boughs, providing sustenance for wild birds ...

Researchers at University of Helsinki, Finland and University at Buffalo, USA have analyzed the evolutionary history of silver birch using big data from the genomes of 150 birches. Big data is a ...

A new study sequences the genomes of 80 silver birch trees, a tree that has not been studied much by scientists despite its commercial value for papermaking, construction, furniture-building and more.

A SILVER birch tree has been planted in Bridgend to mark 25 years of a charity. Carwyn Jones AM joined the managing director of The Shaw Trust and staff from the Bridgend office to plant the tree in ...

Tania Morgan loves nature and the great outdoors. But she is looking forward to the day when she comes home from work and finds the large silver birch tree on the grass verge outside her house gone.

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