Abstract
Efficient wood production and utilization requires knowing the wood quality attributes of forest resources relevant to various end uses, prescribing appropriate silvicultural treatments that positively influence wood quality, and then, at the time of harvesting, sorting and allocating standing timbers to the most appropriate markets [...]
Highlights
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The traditional method for evaluating wood quality in standing trees is to extract core samples from living trees using an increment borer, analyzing trees’ growth trends based on inspection of the ring patterns, and measuring basic wood properties in a laboratory [4,5,6]. This procedure has been used by foresters around the world for many years for defining wood quality of forest resources
Robert Evans and his team in CSIRO, Australia to meet the requirements of plantation assessment and breeding programs. It involves several different measurement principles, including microscopic image analysis, X-ray densitometry, and X-ray diffractometry (microfibril angle (MFA), tracheid and fiber 3D orientation, cellulose crystallite width). It can generate a series of highresolution wood property data from the same wood sample, including wood density, stiffness, microfibril angle, and tracheid properties such as tracheid diameter, coarseness, and cell wall thickness
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. The field of forestry has many widely accepted field tools, sampling procedures, and models for gathering and summarizing data and making projections of growth, yield, and tree size; counterparts for wood quality assessment have lagged behind [3]. The traditional method for evaluating wood quality in standing trees is to extract core samples from living trees using an increment borer, analyzing trees’ growth trends based on inspection of the ring patterns, and measuring basic wood properties (density and stiffness) in a laboratory [4,5,6].
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