By modifying the gene expressions responsible for
the branch growth during the first year of woody species, researchers of the
Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP UPM-INIA), a joint centre of
the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and the The National Institute for
Agricultural Research and Experimentation (INIA), have found a way of
increasing biomass production of a forest plantation without altering its
growth, composition or the wood anatomy. These results have an important market
value for the bioenergy sector, thus this study was protected by patent.
