Centre of Excellence in Tree Biology among 11 new CoEs selected by the Academy of Finland (2022-2029)
TreeBio CoE lead by Ykä Helariutta (Head), Jaakko Kangasjärvi and Ari Pekka Mähönen received funding form the Academy of Finland for the period of 2022-2029. Twelve PIs from the University of Helsinki and LUKE will join their forces to understand carbon sequestration in trees as a holistic, physiological process, and to provide detailed molecular and genomic information for breeding birch as a better carbon sink.