Duration and extension of anatomical changes in wood structure after cambial injury

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3271-3277

  Arbellay, Estelle ^a,b   Fonti, Patrick ^c   Stoffel, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cambial injury; Earlywood vessel; European ash; Fraxinus excelsior; Ray; Ring porous; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CAMBIUM; HISTOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; TIME; TREE; WOOD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAMBIUM; ORGAN SIZE; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WOOD;

FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR;

EID: 84861358211     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ers050     Document Type: Article

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