Compression wood in conifers as a morphogenetic phenomenon

The Botanical Review - Tập 20 Số 9 - Trang 551-560 - 1954
Spurr, Stephen H.1, Hyvärinen, Matti J.1
1School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, USA

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Although much has been done with compression wood, its basic causes have only recently been investigated. It seems quite clear that compression wood is formed indirectly as a counteractant to forces tending to deform a tree in any way. It seems equally clear that compression wood is actually under great compression and actually tends to straighten the tree or otherwise overcome the deformation, be the deformation actual or incipient. Finally it seems quite probable that auxin is the regulator which sets off the intracellular reaction that causes formation of the anomaly.

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