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Vincent L. Chiang
Michigan Technological University
Institute of Wood Research
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931-1295
Web site: http://forestry.mtu.edu/

Tom Jeffries
USDA Forest Products Laboratory
Institute for Microbial and Biochemical Technology
One Gifford Pinchot Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Web sites: http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/
http://www.biotech.wisc.edu/jeffries

Kenneth Munson
International Paper Company
Forest Research and Biotechnology
Box 809024
Dallas, TX 75380
Web site: http://www.internationalpaper.com/

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 5, July 31, 1999, p. 70. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.