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Volume 55 Supplement 6

Special Issue on Wood Science and Technology for Mitigation of Global Warming

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Effect of the lateral growth rate on wood properties in fast-growing hardwood species

Journal of Wood Science volume 55, pages 417–424 (2009)Cite this article

Abstract

We investigated the feasibility of using several fast-growing tropical or subtropical hardwood species for timber production by measuring key wood qualities in relationship to the high rates of lateral growth. The trees tested were sampled from even-aged plantations of Acacia mangium, A. auriculiformis, hybrid Acacia (A. mangium × A. auriculiformis), Eucalyptus grandis, E. globulus, and Paraserianthes falcataria (Solomon and Java origin) that had already reached commercial harvesting age. The released strain of the surface growth stress (RS), xylem density (XD), microfibril angle (MFA), and fiber length (FL) were measured at the outermost part of the xylem at breast height in each tree. Results were then compared to the lateral growth rate (radius/age) at breast height, which provides a relative indicator of the amount of tree growth per year. Our findings indicated that RS was constant, regardless of lateral growth rate in each species. Similar results were observed for XD, MFA, and FL, with a few exceptions, suggesting that high growth rates do not intrinsically affect the wood properties of fast-growing tropical or subtropical species that have reached harvesting age. However, special attention must be paid to patterns of xylem maturation when developing plantations of such species.

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  1. Graduate School of Bio-agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan

    Miho Kojima, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Kayo Okumura, Yasuhisa Ojio, Masato Yoshida & Takashi Okuyama

  2. Graduate School of Bio-resources and Bio-environmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan

    Toshihiro Ona

  3. Tsukuba Research institute, Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd., Ibaraki, 300-2646, Japan

    Kenji Matsune & Kentaro Nakamura

  4. Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan

    Yuji Ide

  5. Faculty of Forestry, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia

    Sri Nugroho Marsoem

  6. Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

    Mohd Hamami Sahri

  7. Faculty of Forestry, Institut Pertanian, Bogor, Bogor, 16680, Indonesia

    Yusuf Sudo Hadi

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Kojima, M., Yamamoto, H., Okumura, K. et al. Effect of the lateral growth rate on wood properties in fast-growing hardwood species. J Wood Sci 55, 417–424 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10086-009-1057-x

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