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... expectations, longitudinal shrinkage tended to increase slightly from pith to bark in ryuunohige and kumotooshi, although MFA did not increase ...in longitudinal shrinkage in the outer stem of ... See full document

... other cultivars (P < 0.01 or P < 0.05). These cultivars are included in the cultivars shown in ...the cultivars shown in ...the trees small need to be ... See full document

... locations within the stem, and future research should investigate optimized sawing patterns for trees of large ...the shrinkage gradients across the timber, especially when it is taken around the ... See full document

... the shrinkage specimens were not taken within 20 mm of the pith or the third growth ring to avoid ...the shrinkage behavior of lumber containing pith to be dif- ferent, which is a topic for future ... See full document

... (Cryptomeria japonica, Japanese cedar) is one of the important plantation species in ...intra-tree variations in wood properties ...on variations in wood ...in sugi trees [16]. ... See full document

... Large internal checks in cross sections might be longer in the longitudinal direction. Timber containing large internal checks might be undesirable for post or beams, because of the decrease in the shear strength ... See full document

... In sugi trees, it was previously reported that MFA in earlywood was relatively constant in the radial direction while MFA in latewood dramatically decreases in the radial direction (from pith to bark) ... See full document

... In fact, the mois- ture content is high in blackened heartwood - more than twice that of with normal heartwood - and the correlation between the potassium content and[r] ... See full document

... These difficulties were overcome by supporting wood blocks during sectioning, which made it possible to cut dense sugi latewood into 10- µ m-thick sections that transmit sufficient IR radiation (Fig. 1c). Thus, ... See full document

... of sugi (Cryptomeria ...in sugi black heartwood in connection with ana- tomical ...words Cryptomeria japonica · Black heartwood · Axial parenchyma cells · Potassium · Inorganic elements ... See full document

... Driven by the signifi cant value loss due to surface checks that occur on side-grain surfaces during lumber processing, interest has arisen in the investigation of drying stresses associated with surface checks over the ... See full document

... japonica) heartwood was fractionated with toluene and n-hexane to give solvent-soluble and solvent-insoluble fractions. The n-hexane-soluble fraction showed the most inhibition activity among the fractions against ... See full document

... Hinoki trees, increase in backscatter shows clearly with the increase in biophysical parameters, showing highest correlation for the tree height for HH (R 2 = ...the Sugi trees, stand biophysical ... See full document

... [25]. Sugi has relatively nar- row latewood, and the percentage of latewood decreases with ring width ...of sugi specimens without pith was buckling due to load- ing in the tangential ... See full document

... To survey possibilities that bases of dead branches com- prised the invasion gateway for Fomitiporia sp., chemical components were determined in the bark and xylem from living and dead branch materials of ... See full document

... of sugi forms from hydroxysugiresinol treated with an enzyme via an intermediate product (dehydrohydro- xysugiresinol), which shows maximum absorbance at 410 ... See full document

... on sugi heartwood, the extracts, especially methanol extracts, were responsible for the color after UV radiation ...from sugi heart- wood, norlignans have been isolated and identified as phenol constituents ... See full document

... In the sawing test, 24 large-diameter Sugi logs randomly selected from a group of 35 were used. A 1,200 mm band mill with an auto feed carriage and a 1,100 mm auto-roller table band resaw installed in the Forestry ... See full document

... For each sample disk, the TL and MFA were measured at the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th, and 20th annual rings and every 10 years after the 20th annual rings from the pith. The latewood slice of each annual ring was ... See full document

... also reported that a mixture of sandaracopimarinol and 2,7(14),10-bisabolatrien-1-ol-4-one acted as a repellent against the pill-bug Armadillidium vulgare, which is an unpleasant pest in the house and a vegetable pest, ... See full document