Force-displacement measurements of earlywood bordered pits using a mesomechanical tester

Plant Cell and Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2088-2097

  Zelinka, Samuel L ^a   Bourne, Keith J ^a   Hermanson, John C ^b   Glass, Samuel V ^a   Costa, Adriana ^c   Wiedenhoeft, Alex C ^c  

^a US Forest Service   (United States)

^b US Forest Service   (United States)

^c FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air seeding; Mesomechanical testing; Pit membrane; Torus prolapse; Wood preservative treatment

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE; PRESERVATIVE; WOOD;

GYMNOSPERMAE; LARIX;

WATER;

AIR; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MEMBRANE; DESICCATION; DEVICES; FLOW KINETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LARIX; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PROCEDURES; VIDEORECORDING; WOOD;

AIR; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CELL MEMBRANE; DESICCATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LARIX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PINUS; RHEOLOGY; VIDEO RECORDING; WATER; WOOD;

EID: 84941875334     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12532     Document Type: Article

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