The Relationship between Pit Membrane Ultrastructure and Chemical Impregnability of Wood

Holzforschung

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 341-346

  Singh, Adya ^a   Dawson, Bernard ^a   Franich, Robert ^a   Cowan, Faye ^a   Warnes, Jeremy ^a  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alder wood; Chemical impregnation; Eucalypt wood; Pit membrane ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011230110     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HF.1999.056     Document Type: Article

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