Relationship between the grain pattern in the wood, domain pattern and pattern of growth activity in the storeyed cambium of trees

Abstract

The relationship between the arrangement of cell events occurring in cambium in a definite configuration and the grain pattern of wood was investigated. Taking into consideration the growth activity of fusiform cell ends, a model of a migrating morphogenetic wave determining an event configuration was made. Waves of length λ=1 m for the periods T=2 years and T=3 years and waves of lengths λ=l m and λ=0.04 m for the period T=10 years were considered. On the model, events from successive annual rings, conventionally comprising 10 cell layers each, were summed. In this way, event maps were obtained. For wave λ=4 mm, the domain pattern on the modelled map was compatible with the grain pattern. The domain pattern for the wave λ=1 m was impossible to recreate because the wave “migrated too fast”. In this case, the pattern of event configuration, incompatible with the grain pattern, formed microareas, which were not domains.