Is there an equivalent of human growth hormone or any method to accelerate the growth rate of tree?
If we can speed up the rate of commerically logged trees of high value , e.g. rosewood, ebony. etc, there would be very beneficial environmentally(no more logging in the rainforest), not to mention the commerical value.
I was not able to find anything other than an article in Discover magazine about a Chinese shrug that has been selectively bred to increase grow rate by two fold. Other than that, I found nothing through the routes of genetic engineering or molecular mechanism.
Does anyone know any researcher or any company currently working on this problem/
2007-01-18
09:36:22
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