Colour of larch heartwood and relationships to extractives and brown-rot decay resistance

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 102-108

  Gierlinger, Notburga ^a   Jacques, Dominique ^b   Grabner, Michael ^a   Wimmer, Rupert ^a   Schwanninger, Manfred ^a   Rozenberg, Philippe ^c   Pâques, Luc E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b Ctr Rech Nat Forets et du Bois   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

CIE L *a*b*; Larix sp.; Natural durability; Phenols; Relative decay resistance

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DURABILITY; FUNGI; OPTIMIZATION; TEXTURES; WOOD;

LARCH HEARTWOOD;

FORESTRY;

CONIOPHORA; CONIOPHORA PUTEANA; FUNGI; LAMB; LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; LARIX KAEMPFERI; LARIX SP.; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PORIA; PSEUDOLARIX KAEMPFERI;

EID: 1642482336     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-003-0290-y     Document Type: Article

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