<br><br><a href='http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/2006/dec/214.html' target='_blank'>http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/2006/dec/214.html</a><br><br>A team of researchers led by scientists at North Carolina State University has been awarded a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the Plant Genome Program of the National Science Foundation to study the genomes of trees in the Fagaceae family, which includes the hardwood species of beech, chestnut and oak.