As you enjoy pecan pie this holiday season, consider the pecan: Carya illinoinensis. Yes, as Southern as they may seem, these useful nut trees are native to Illinois — in fact, their natural range is ...

The chloroplast (cp) is critical for various biological functions in plants, such as photosynthesis and stress responses, with its genome offering simpler analysis and sequencing due to its size and ...

If you have pecan pie for dessert during the coming holiday season, give thanks for the pecan tree. A native tree of southern and western Illinois — as its Latin name, Carya illinoinensis, implies — ...

The northern pecan tree, Carya illinoinensis, is native to Maryland. While pecans are mostly thought of as a southern tree, they belong to the hardy hickory family, and can thrive and easily survive ...

Carya is a North American genus of tree first recognized by English naturalist Thomas Nuttall in his work “The Genera of North American Plants” (1818). The ancient Greek meaning of Carya, is “nut.” ...

Although the debate over the pronunciation of this tree’s common name is hotly contested, with many regional variations, one thing people can agree on is that pecans are delicious. The largest growing ...