Living wood fibers act as large-capacity "single-use" starch storage in black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 607-616

  Yamada, Yukiko ^a   Awano, Tatsuya ^a   Fujita, Minoru ^a   Takabe, Keiji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Living wood fiber; Parenchyma; Robinia pseudoacacia; Starch storage

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RING; BLACK LOCUST; DORMANT PERIOD; LIVING WOOD; PARENCHYMA; RAY PARENCHYMA; ROBINIA PSEUDO-ACACIA; STARCH CONTENTS; STARCH STORAGE; WOOD FIBER;

CELL DEATH; FIBERS; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); WOOD PRODUCTS;

STARCH;

CELL STRUCTURE; FORESTRY; PROTOPLASM; ROBINIA; STARCH; STORAGE; WOOD FIBERS; WOOD PRODUCTS;

ROBINIA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA;

EID: 79960335285     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-010-0537-3     Document Type: Article

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