Funding:
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program, by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE1745303, and the Explorer’s club. The SCGSR program is administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) for the DOE. ORISE is managed by ORAU under contract number DE-SC0014664. Support for the establishment, maintenance and genetic resources of the Populus common gardens was provided by the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI), a Bioenergy Research Center supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.