Differentiation of terminal latewood tracheids in silver fir trees during autumn

Annals of Botany

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 959-965

  Gričar, Jožica ^a   Čufar, Katarina ^a   Oven, Primož ^a   Schmitt, Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autumn differentiation; Cell wall structure; Latewood tracheids; Light microscopy; Lignification; Silver fir (Abies alba); Transmission electron microscopy; UV microspectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CONIFEROUS TREE; TREE RING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA;

ABIES; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SEASON; SLOVENIA; TREE;

ABIES; SEASONS; SLOVENIA; TREES;

EID: 21244494096     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mci112     Document Type: Article

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