Revisiting the transition between juvenile and mature wood: a comparison of fibre length, microfibril angle and relative wood density in lodgepole pine
-
Shawn D. Mansfield
Abstract
In an attempt to examine the dynamic inter-relationship among wood density and fibre traits [tracheid length and microfibril angle (MFA)] in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), 60 trees were sampled in three age classes from four sites in central British Columbia. Breast height discs were taken and relative wood density was measured along two radii. Tracheid length was assessed on isolated 5-year increments from pith to bark at breast height for each tree. MFA was determined every 50 μm and the 5-mm composite intervals from pith to bark per disc at breast height were used in the analysis. Segmented regression was employed to identify the “juvenile to mature wood” transition point, which revealed transition ages of 31, 18 and 15 for wood density, fibre length and MFA, respectively. These traits were related to primary growth, expressed as area increment, ring width, percent earlywood and height increment during the juvenile wood phase. Comparisons of wood and fibre traits showed a higher congruence between the time of transitions for fibre length and MFA (Pearson correlation coefficient 0.52) than that between fibre length and wood density (0.07), and MFA and wood density (0.16). The cessation of early rapid radial increment growth terminated before wood and fibre transitions to mature wood occurred. Fibre length was significantly, but not strongly, related to ring width and percent earlywood (0.35 for both). The duration of juvenile fibre production was not significantly related to height growth.
©2009 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York
Articles in the same Issue
- Original Papers
- 2D-NMR (HSQC) difference spectra between specifically 13C-enriched and unenriched protolignin of Ginkgo biloba obtained in the solution state of whole cell wall material
- Colour in thermally modified wood of beech, Norway spruce and Scots pine. Part 1: Colour evolution and colour changes
- Colour in thermally modified wood of beech, Norway spruce and Scots pine. Part 2: Property predictions from colour changes
- The relationship found between fibre length and viscosity of three different commercial kraft pulps
- High-yield kraft pulping of Eucalyptus grandis Hill ex Maiden biotreated by Ceriporiopsis subvermispora under two different culture conditions
- Analysis of microwave vs. thermally assisted grafting of poly(methyl-vinyl ether co-maleic acid)-polyethylene glycol to birch kraft pulp
- Selective enzyme impregnation of chips to reduce specific refining energy in alkaline peroxide mechanical pulping
- Radical chain reactions in pyrolytic cleavage of the ether linkages of lignin model dimers and a trimer
- Quantitative chemical indicators to assess the gradation of compression wood
- Comparison of mechanical properties of thermally modified wood at growth ring and cell wall level by means of instrumented indentation tests
- Revisiting the transition between juvenile and mature wood: a comparison of fibre length, microfibril angle and relative wood density in lodgepole pine
- Characterization of the wood quality of pernambuco (Caesalpinia echinata Lam) by measurements of density, extractives content, microfibril angle, stiffness, color, and NIR spectroscopy
- An improved drying model for highly-impermeable hardwoods
- Neutron attenuation coefficients for non-invasive quantification of wood properties
- Topochemical investigations of cell walls in developing xylem of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)
- Effects of substrate on laboratory spalting of sugar maple
- Short Notes
- Apigenin derivatives from Paulownia tomentosa Steud. var. tomentosa stem barks
- Forming limits for the bulk forming of solid wood
- Meetings
- Meetings
Articles in the same Issue
- Original Papers
- 2D-NMR (HSQC) difference spectra between specifically 13C-enriched and unenriched protolignin of Ginkgo biloba obtained in the solution state of whole cell wall material
- Colour in thermally modified wood of beech, Norway spruce and Scots pine. Part 1: Colour evolution and colour changes
- Colour in thermally modified wood of beech, Norway spruce and Scots pine. Part 2: Property predictions from colour changes
- The relationship found between fibre length and viscosity of three different commercial kraft pulps
- High-yield kraft pulping of Eucalyptus grandis Hill ex Maiden biotreated by Ceriporiopsis subvermispora under two different culture conditions
- Analysis of microwave vs. thermally assisted grafting of poly(methyl-vinyl ether co-maleic acid)-polyethylene glycol to birch kraft pulp
- Selective enzyme impregnation of chips to reduce specific refining energy in alkaline peroxide mechanical pulping
- Radical chain reactions in pyrolytic cleavage of the ether linkages of lignin model dimers and a trimer
- Quantitative chemical indicators to assess the gradation of compression wood
- Comparison of mechanical properties of thermally modified wood at growth ring and cell wall level by means of instrumented indentation tests
- Revisiting the transition between juvenile and mature wood: a comparison of fibre length, microfibril angle and relative wood density in lodgepole pine
- Characterization of the wood quality of pernambuco (Caesalpinia echinata Lam) by measurements of density, extractives content, microfibril angle, stiffness, color, and NIR spectroscopy
- An improved drying model for highly-impermeable hardwoods
- Neutron attenuation coefficients for non-invasive quantification of wood properties
- Topochemical investigations of cell walls in developing xylem of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)
- Effects of substrate on laboratory spalting of sugar maple
- Short Notes
- Apigenin derivatives from Paulownia tomentosa Steud. var. tomentosa stem barks
- Forming limits for the bulk forming of solid wood
- Meetings
- Meetings
