The spruce tree from Köttsjön ("Meat lake") that becomes an international celebrity in science

The spruce genome project has taken off. A spruce individual från Jämtland has been selected and after only one week of sequencing, more sequence data has been generated than during the whole human genome project, that took ten years.

News at Umeå University (in Swedish)
News at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (in Swedish)

Read more at the project site