Assessing how meristem differently regulates wood formation to achieve different anatomical properties can help understanding the mechanisms of response and their plasticity. Aims We monitored the formation of compression (CW) and opposite (OW) wood within the same stems to understand whether achieved ...
Xylem growthWood formationCambial activityMinimum air temperatureShort growing seasonKey message The thresholdminimumairtemperaturedrivingxylemgrowthof alpine Rhododendron aganniphum islowerthan that commonly observed at the treeline of conifers.doi:10.1007/s00468-016-1436-z...
Methods: Timings of wood formation in black spruce, Picea mariana, were monitored for 9 years on a weekly timescale at four sites in the boreal forest of Quebec, Canada. Models for assessing xylem phenology were defined and applied to reconstruct onset, ending and duration of xylogenesis ...
of the tracheary elements contribute to the mechanical support which the xylem provides to the plant. Secondary xylem (wood) develops from the vascular cambium and is used commercially for the production of lumber, paper and fiber. Various approaches have been used to identify genes that affect x...
All the species showed similar dynamics of wood formation, indeed cell production was concentrated in the first part of the growing season, while cambial activity, synchronized with photoperiod, with the maximum rates of wood production during summer solstice. Threshold temperatures for maintaining xylo...
Perspective from the xylogenesis monitor- ing of two sympatric ring-porous oaks. New Phytol. 209: 521-530.Perez-de-Lis, G., Rossi, S., Vazquez-Ruiz, R.A., Rozas, V., and Garcia-Gonzalez, I.: Do changes in spring phenology affect 10 earlywood vessels? Perspective from the xylo...
We compared the onset of xylogenesis at different heights along the stem of young and mature Smith fir trees (Abies georgei var. smithii) in the Sygera Mountains, south-eastern Tibetan Plateau. Xylem formation was monitored weekly in 2012 on anatomical sections of wood microcores. The onset ...
It is noteworthy that the largest part of global vegetation biomass depends on a thin layer of cells: the vascular cambium. Understanding the wood formation processes and relationships with environmental factors is a crucial and timely research question requiring interdisciplinary efforts, also to ...
Wood formationXylem phenologyJournal of Forestry Research - Seasonal patterns of wood formation (xylogenesis) remain understudied in mixed pine–oak forests despite their contribution to tree coexistence through temporal...doi:10.1007/s11676-022-01484-3Pompa-García, Marín...
Finally, cell death occurs in secondary xylem cells, but its timing is different among the types and positions of cells. During formation of the secondary wall in tracheids or wood fibers, the cellulose microfibrils change their orientation progressively to form thick cell walls with a highly ...