Annual Variations in Norway Spruce Xylem Studied Using Infrared Micro-spectroscopy

Weiwei Huang; Nanna Bjerregaard Pedersen; Maria Fredriksson; Lisbeth Garbrecht Thygesen

doi:10.3390/f10020164

Annual Variations in Norway Spruce Xylem Studied Using Infrared Micro-spectroscopy

Weiwei Huang, Nanna Bjerregaard Pedersen, Maria Fredriksson, Lisbeth Garbrecht Thygesen

Forest, Nature and Biomass

4 Citations (Scopus)

67 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

In temperate environments, ring width, cell size and cell wall thickness within the xylem of trees are known to be affected by climate conditions. Less is known about the effect of climate conditions on the chemical characteristics of the xylem, which are important for the susceptibility of the tissue towards fungal infections as well as for the degradability of the material within the forest ecosystem. We explored the use of infrared microspectroscopy to investigate the possible effects of temperature and drought on the relative amount of cell wall biopolymers, ie the ratios between cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin in the earlywood xylem cell walls of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) in temperate forests. Drought and warm temperatures were significantly correlated to the hemicellulose to lignin ratio of the earlywood formed the following year, perhaps due to a reduced amount of stored resources being available for xylem formation.

Original language	English
Article number	164
Journal	Forests
Volume	10
Issue number	2
Number of pages	11
ISSN	1999-4907
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/f10020164
Publication status	Published - 15 Feb 2019

Access to Document

10.3390/f10020164Licence: CC BY

Annual Variations in Norway Spruce Xylem Studied Using Infrared Micro-spectroscopyFinal published version, 1.04 MBLicence: CC BY

Cite this

@article{c68ca063211a4fb8ba119c0633b19f3b,

title = "Annual Variations in Norway Spruce Xylem Studied Using Infrared Micro-spectroscopy",

abstract = "In temperate environments, ring width, cell size and cell wall thickness within the xylem of trees are known to be affected by climate conditions. Less is known about the effect of climate conditions on the chemical characteristics of the xylem, which are important for the susceptibility of the tissue towards fungal infections as well as for the degradability of the material within the forest ecosystem. We explored the use of infrared microspectroscopy to investigate the possible effects of temperature and drought on the relative amount of cell wall biopolymers, ie the ratios between cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin in the earlywood xylem cell walls of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) in temperate forests. Drought and warm temperatures were significantly correlated to the hemicellulose to lignin ratio of the earlywood formed the following year, perhaps due to a reduced amount of stored resources being available for xylem formation. ",

author = "Weiwei Huang and Pedersen, {Nanna Bjerregaard} and Maria Fredriksson and Thygesen, {Lisbeth Garbrecht}",

year = "2019",

month = feb,

day = "15",

doi = "10.3390/f10020164",

language = "English",

volume = "10",

journal = "Forests",

issn = "1999-4907",

publisher = "M D P I AG",

number = "2",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Annual Variations in Norway Spruce Xylem Studied Using Infrared Micro-spectroscopy

AU - Huang, Weiwei

AU - Pedersen, Nanna Bjerregaard

AU - Fredriksson, Maria

AU - Thygesen, Lisbeth Garbrecht

PY - 2019/2/15

Y1 - 2019/2/15

N2 - In temperate environments, ring width, cell size and cell wall thickness within the xylem of trees are known to be affected by climate conditions. Less is known about the effect of climate conditions on the chemical characteristics of the xylem, which are important for the susceptibility of the tissue towards fungal infections as well as for the degradability of the material within the forest ecosystem. We explored the use of infrared microspectroscopy to investigate the possible effects of temperature and drought on the relative amount of cell wall biopolymers, ie the ratios between cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin in the earlywood xylem cell walls of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) in temperate forests. Drought and warm temperatures were significantly correlated to the hemicellulose to lignin ratio of the earlywood formed the following year, perhaps due to a reduced amount of stored resources being available for xylem formation.

AB - In temperate environments, ring width, cell size and cell wall thickness within the xylem of trees are known to be affected by climate conditions. Less is known about the effect of climate conditions on the chemical characteristics of the xylem, which are important for the susceptibility of the tissue towards fungal infections as well as for the degradability of the material within the forest ecosystem. We explored the use of infrared microspectroscopy to investigate the possible effects of temperature and drought on the relative amount of cell wall biopolymers, ie the ratios between cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin in the earlywood xylem cell walls of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) in temperate forests. Drought and warm temperatures were significantly correlated to the hemicellulose to lignin ratio of the earlywood formed the following year, perhaps due to a reduced amount of stored resources being available for xylem formation.

U2 - 10.3390/f10020164

DO - 10.3390/f10020164

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1999-4907

VL - 10

JO - Forests

JF - Forests

IS - 2

M1 - 164

ER -

Annual Variations in Norway Spruce Xylem Studied Using Infrared Micro-spectroscopy

Abstract

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this