About Populus pruinosa Schrenk
Populus pruinosa Schrenk is a flowering plant species belonging to the Salicaceae family. It is native to Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Xinjiang, China. It is a halophytic tree, typically growing 10 m (33 ft) tall, and can occasionally reach heights of 20 m (66 ft). It is most often found growing in basins. Its bark is grayish-yellow, its branchlets and young sprouts are gray and densely tomentulose, and its leaves are tomentulose and grayish-blue. The genome of this species has been sequenced, and results show that duplicated genes and the expansion of specific gene families in Populus pruinosa helped it adapt to extreme desert environments with high salinity and drought.
