Comparative Morphology of Selected Sapwood Species Using the Scanning Electron Microscope

Greaves, H.

doi:10.1515/hfsg.1973.27.3.80

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“…The similarity between warts and pit vestures in vessel elements has been pointed out already by several authors (cote & Day 1962, Wardrop et al 1963, Scurfi.eld & Silva 1970, Greaves 1973, MeyIan & Butterfield 1974, Ohtani & Ishida 1976, Ohtani 1983. The structures have repeatedly been found to be similar in morphological structure and chemical composition (Baird 1974).…”

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Occurrence of warts in the vessel elements and fibres of New Zealand woods

Ohtani

Meylan

Butterfield

1983

New Zealand Journal of Botany

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The vessel elements and fibres of 203 New Zealand woody species from 81 genera belonging to 52 dicotyledonous families were examined for the presence or absence of warts. During the survey warts were found to be present in 55 species from 20 genera belonging to 12 families but were absent or rarely present in the remainder. With the exception of Pseudopanax and Coprosma the presence or absence of warts was consistent within all the species that were examined of the same genus.

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Occurrence of warts in the vessel elements and fibres of New Zealand woods

Ohtani

Meylan

Butterfield

1983

New Zealand Journal of Botany

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“…Jutte and Spit (1963) showed that there are circularly oriented microfibrils in the torus and microfibrils in the pit border are also circularly oriented (Bailey & Vestal 1937;Khalili et al 2001). Greaves (1973) found that margo structure in bordered pits were denser in latewood and not as easily aspirated as pits in earlywood. Fengel (1972) and Harada and Côté (1985) have reviewed the structure and function of bordered and half-bordered pits in softwoods.…”

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Micro- And Ultrastructural Aspects of Norway Spruce Tracheids: A Review

Brändström¹

2001

IAWA J

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Norway spruce, Picea abies (L.) Karsten, is one of the most commercially important wood species in northern Europe. Wood from Norway spruce consists mainly (> 90%) of tracheids and the micro- and ultrastructure of these tracheids have a considerable effect on the wood and its manufactured products. This literature review presents current knowledge on some important aspects of the micro- and ultrastructural morphology of Norway spruce tracheids. At the microstructural level, variation and general trends within the tree are given for tracheid length, tracheid diameter and cell wall thickness. At the ultrastructural level, the architecture of the secondary cell wall, and particularly its lamellation and microfibril orientation are considered. Where information on Norway spruce tracheids was lacking, tracheids of other conifers are reviewed. Thus, this review also gives an insight on the structure of other conifer tracheids since there are many similarities in structure between different conifer species.

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“…Early studies by Côté and Day (1962) and by Schmid (1965) using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) indicated that vestures could be divided simply into two main types, namely, branched and unbranched vestures. Subsequent studies by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) revealed the three-dimensional structure of vestures in detail (e.g., Scurfield et al 1970;Greaves 1973;Ohtani & Ishida 1976;Wu et al 1988). Thus, considerable information about the micromorphology of vestures has accumulated in the literature and can be used for the identification of various woods (e.g., Van Vliet 1978;Jansen et al 1998Jansen et al , 2000Jansen et al , 2004Ohtani 2000).…”

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Histochemical Study of the Chemical Composition of Vestured Pits in two Species of Eucalyptus

Watanabe¹,

Sano²,

Asada³

et al. 2006

IAWA J

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We analyzed the chemical composition of vestures of vessel elements and wood fibres of Eucalyptus camaldulensis and Eucalyptus globulus by ultraviolet (UV) microscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) after staining with potassium permanganate (KMnO4) or the PATAg reaction, and field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). Samples were treated with dilute solutions of NaOH at various concentrations. Before treatment with alkali, the vestures on the secondary walls of vessel elements and wood fibres were visible on UV micrographs taken at 280 nm and were strongly stained by KMnO4. Vestures were strongly stained by the PATAg reaction in samples that had been treated with 0.1% NaOH. However, treatment with higher concentrations of NaOH dissolved the vestures. FE-SEM observations showed that the process of dissolution of vestures during alkali extraction differed between the two species. It appears that vestures in Eucalyptus woods consist mainly of alkali-soluble polyphenols and polysaccharides. In addition, the chemical composition of vestures may differ between the two species of Eucalyptus that we examined.

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Comparative Morphology of Selected Sapwood Species Using the Scanning Electron Microscope

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Occurrence of warts in the vessel elements and fibres of New Zealand woods

Occurrence of warts in the vessel elements and fibres of New Zealand woods

Micro- And Ultrastructural Aspects of Norway Spruce Tracheids: A Review

Histochemical Study of the Chemical Composition of Vestured Pits in two Species of Eucalyptus

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