A study by University of Florida Professor Ed Gilman suggests reducing the size of the canopy by trimming the long side branches. When trees are thinned, by removing the branches from the middle, the ...

The first step in pruning is to determine how you want your tree to look. The photo shows branches that were cut with no consideration of the final shape of the tree. A tree will not recover its ...

The DNA molecule encodes both tree shape and environmental response in one tiny, subcellular package. In work inspired by DNA, Bedrich Benes, professor of computer science, and his associates ...