An investigation on the formation and occurrence of spiral grain and compression wood in radiata pine (Pinus radiata D. Don.)
Radiata pine (Pinus radiata) is the most important plantation tree in New Zealand forestry, and factors that reduce the quality of wood cause significant economic loss. Two of the most important of these issues are compression wood and spiral grain. Compression wood is a type of reaction wood, forme...
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University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9654 |