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- Title
Revisiting the transition between juvenile and mature wood: a comparison of fibre length, microfibril angle and relative wood density in lodgepole pine.
- Authors
Shawn D. Mansfield; Roberta Parish; C. Mario Di Lucca; James Goudie; Kyu-Young Kang; Peter Ott
- Abstract
AbstractIn an attempt to examine the dynamic inter-relationship among wood density and fibre traits [tracheid length and microfibril angle (MFA)] in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), 60 trees were sampled in three age classes from four sites in central British Columbia. Breast height discs were taken and relative wood density was measured along two radii. Tracheid length was assessed on isolated 5-year increments from pith to bark at breast height for each tree. MFA was determined every 50 μm and the 5-mm composite intervals from pith to bark per disc at breast height were used in the analysis. Segmented regression was employed to identify the “juvenile to mature wood” transition point, which revealed transition ages of 31, 18 and 15 for wood density, fibre length and MFA, respectively. These traits were related to primary growth, expressed as area increment, ring width, percent earlywood and height increment during the juvenile wood phase. Comparisons of wood and fibre traits showed a higher congruence between the time of transitions for fibre length and MFA (Pearson correlation coefficient 0.52) than that between fibre length and wood density (0.07), and MFA and wood density (0.16). The cessation of early rapid radial increment growth terminated before wood and fibre transitions to mature wood occurred. Fibre length was significantly, but not strongly, related to ring width and percent earlywood (0.35 for both). The duration of juvenile fibre production was not significantly related to height growth.
- Subjects
BRITISH Columbia; WOOD density; LODGEPOLE pine; MICROFIBRILS; TRACHEARY cells; PLANT fibers; PLANT growth; GROWTH of plant cells &; tissues
- Publication
Holzforschung: International Journal of the Biology, Chemistry, Physics, & Technology of Wood, 2009, Vol 63, Issue 4, p449
- ISSN
0018-3830
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/HF.2009.069