Juvenile versus mature wood: A new concept, orthogonal to corewood versus outerwood, with special reference to Pinus radiata and P. taeda

Forest Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 399-415

  Burdon, Rowland D ^a   Paul Kibblewhite, R ^a   Walker, John C F ^b   Megraw, Robert A ^c,d   Evans, Robert ^e   Cown, David J ^a  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY   (United States)

^d CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products ^*  (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Maturation; Microfibril angle; Spiral grain; Tracheid length; Wood density

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; MORPHOLOGY;

COREWOOD; PINES;

WOOD;

ANATOMY; FORESTRY; PINUS; STEMS; WOOD;

PINUS RADIATA; PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 4644337108     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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