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Volume 68 (2017), issue 3
Title:

Fiber Characteristics of White Poplar (Populus alba L.) Juvenile Wood along the Drava River

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Abstract:

Anatomical properties of white poplar (Populus alba L.) wood have not been sufficiently investigated and quantified, whereas data on fiber characteristics will certainly define its potential as a raw material. Fiber length, double cell wall thickness and fiber lumen diameter of white poplar juvenile wood from two sites along the Drava River in Croatia were measured. Variations in fiber characteristics in radial direction (from pith to bark), within and between white poplar populations from two sites were investigated. Results indicate that fiber Rlength and double cell wall thickness varied significantly from pith to bark, within and between sites. Variation in fiber lumen diameter was non-significant only between sites. The variation in radial pattern was characterized by increase in fiber length with cambial age. Double cell wall thickness and fiber lumen diameter varied in non-consistent radial pattern. In conclusion, variation significance demonstrates nonhomogeneous wood fiber characteristics at both sites.

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Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology
HRCAK
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DOI
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DRVNA INDUSTRIJA Scientific Journal of Wood Technology

ISSN 0012-6772 (Print) / ISSN 1847-1153 (Online)

Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska - Croatia
Tel: +3851 2352 430, E-mail: drind@sumfak.hr
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Ružica Beljo-Lučić, Ph.D. E-mail: editordi@sumfak.hr
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