Fascinating. I'm very leery of bio-engineering like this. How many well intended introductions have had disastrous long term consequences? (Nutria, Kudzu, etc, etc. ) But I can clearly see the economic and environmental benefits of creating trees that grow quickly, are disease resistant, and create high quality wood. Hmm.

"Vancouver-based CellFor said it raised $10 million to expand the types and quantities of its specialty tree seedlings that increase timberland yields by more than 50 percent an acre.

The seedlings are developed by cross-breeding the seeds of the fastest-growing trees and using somatic embryogenesis to produce large numbers."