{"id":168502,"date":"2023-07-28T18:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T23:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/genetically-engineered-trees-stoke-climate-hope-and-environmental-fears"},"modified":"2023-07-28T18:31:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T23:31:31","slug":"genetically-engineered-trees-stoke-climate-hope-and-environmental-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/genetically-engineered-trees-stoke-climate-hope-and-environmental-fears","title":{"rendered":"Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope \u2014 and environmental fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetically-engineered-trees-stoke-climate-hope-and-environmental-fears.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cO poplar tree, O poplar tree, how carbon-dense are thy branches \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trees are a major tool in our fight against climate change by sucking up carbon dioxide, but one company is taking them a step further: genetically engineering trees to sequester even more carbon. U.S. climate technology startup Living Carbon is developing genetically engineered seedlings of a hybrid poplar that it says can accumulate up to 53% more biomass than control plants and thereby absorb 27% more carbon.<\/p>\n<p>Plants use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugar, a process known as photosynthesis. Living Carbon says its trees, a hybrid of the common aspen (<em>Populus tremula<\/em>) and white poplar (<em>P. alba<\/em>), can do it better with genetic changes to boost its photosynthetic performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cO poplar tree, O poplar tree, how carbon-dense are thy branches \u2026\u201d Trees are a major tool in our fight against climate change by sucking up carbon dioxide, but one company is taking them a step further: genetically engineering trees to sequester even more carbon. U.S. climate technology startup Living Carbon is developing genetically engineered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,493,412,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-climatology","category-genetics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}