Inheritance of basic density and microfibril angle and their variations among full-sib families and their parental clones in Picea glehnii

Author

Jun Tanabe

 / Akira Tamura

 / Futoshi Ishiguri

 / Yuya Takashima

 / Kazuya Iizuka

 / Shinso Yokota

Published Online: 2014-10-25 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/hf-2014-0052

Abstract

Picea glehnii is one of the most important plantation species in Hokkaido, Japan. Basic density (BD) and microfibril angle (MFA) of the S2 layer in latewood tracheid in 16 full-sib families and their six parental clones planted in Hokkaido were examined to clarify among-family and clonal variations of wood properties and their inheritance from parents to offspring. Mean values of BD and MFA in full-sib families and parental clones were 0.36 and 0.35 g cm-3 and 16.1° and 10.7°, respectively. Estimated repeatabilities of BD and MFA in juvenile wood (jW) were higher than those in mature wood. In addition, larger genetic coefficient of variation was detected for jW, indicating that improvement of jW properties is important to Hokkaido’s tree breeding program. Parent-offspring correlation coefficients were positive and significant in all properties. These results suggest that the influence of parental clones on wood properties is inheritable to offspring. Moreover, there were no significant differences between reciprocal crosses of wood properties, suggesting that plus-tree clones with good wood properties can be used as either female or male parents for producing offspring. There is a possibility of improving wood properties in P. glehnii by crossing clones with desirable properties.

Keywords: basic density; microfibril angle; parent-offspring correlation; tree breeding for wood quality

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Corresponding author: Futoshi Ishiguri, Faculty of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya 321-8505, Japan, e-mail: 

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Received: 2014-02-20

Accepted: 2014-09-26

Published Online: 2014-10-25

Published in Print: 2015-07-01

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Interrelationship between lignin-rich dichloromethane extracts of hot water-treated wood fibers and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) in wood plastic composite (WPC) production

Author

Manuel R. Pelaez-Samaniego

 / Vikram Yadama

 / Manuel Garcia-Perez

 / Eini Lowell

 / Rui Zhu

 / Karl Englund

Published Online: 2015-03-04 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/hf-2014-0309

Abstract

Hot water extraction (HWE) partially removes hemicelluloses from wood while leaving the majority of the lignin and cellulose; however, the lignin partially migrates to the inner surfaces of the cell wall where it can be deposited as a layer that is sometimes visible as droplets. This lignin-rich material was isolated via Soxhlet extraction with dichloromethane to investigate its rheological behavior in blends with high-density polyethylene (HDPE), a common material in wood plastic composites (WPCs). Pyrolysis gas-chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) and electrospray ion mass spectrometry (ESI/MS) confirmed that the isolated material is constituted mainly of low-molecular-weight lignin oligomers. The blends of HDPE/isolated lignin, in varying ratios, were tested by means of dynamic rheology. A “shoulder” was found in plots “shear storage moduli (G′) vs. frequency sweep” and a shift of the terminal zone to lower frequencies was observed. Apparently, this shoulder is caused by the elastic contribution of the interfacial tension between the blend components. The rheology of WPCs produced from HWE wood and HDPE shows a similar shoulder in G′ plots, suggesting that the HDPE/lignin blends are in part responsible for the shape of the G′ curves.

Keywords: high-density polyethylene (HDPE); hot water extraction (HWE); lignin; rheology; wood plastic composites (WPC)

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Corresponding author: Vikram Yadama, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA; and Composite Materials and Engineering Center, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA, Phone: +15093356261; Fax: +15093355077, e-mail: 

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Received: 2014-10-17

Accepted: 2015-01-29

Published Online: 2015-03-04

Published in Print: 2016-01-01

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