Macroscopic staining, longitudinal shrinkage and growth strains of tension wood of poplar (Populus x euramericana cv I.214).
Macroscopic staining, longitudinal shrinkage and growth strains of tension wood of poplar (Populus x euramericana cv I.214).
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10.1051/forest:19960604
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发表时间:
1996-01-01
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Fournier, M
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Grzeskowiak, V;Sassus, F;Fournier, M
This study aims at characterizing distribution and properties of tension wood of poplar (clone I.214). First, the use of zinc chloroiodide for the macroscopic staining of tension wood was validated for poplar. Then, longitudinal growth strain and axial shrinkage were measured for both normal and tension wood. The staining revealed fine tangential strips of tension wood, closely corresponding to G fibres on microscopic slides (fig 5). The tension wood content, quantified by the stained surface ratio, was weakly correlated to the measurement of the longitudinal strain (fig 6). Tension wood shrinkage was greater than that of normal wood (5.6 vs 1.7%, table IV). Macroscopic staining evidenced rapid variations of wood structure within the transverse plane; this was confined by shrinkage measurements (figs 8 and 9). Moreover, rapid variations of longitudinal shrinkage along the fibre direction was observed, probably due to the location of our samples at the base of a fork.