<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/link-2024-07-green-gold.aspx" dsn="blogs"><title>Green gold: Turning trees into 'biofactories'</title><description><span>Spartan researchers have developed a way to get poplar trees to produce valuable molecules usually derived from shark livers</span></description><pubDate>07/08/2024</pubDate><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2024/2024-07-shark-poplars.jpg" alt="A large green poplar leaf speckled with water droplets"/></image><externalNewsArticleLink>https://bmb.natsci.msu.edu/news/2024/2024-green-gold.aspx</externalNewsArticleLink><categories>Discovery Science,Health Science and Innovation,Plant Sciences</categories><broadcast>mps,prl</broadcast></item>