New insights on wood dimensional stability influenced by secondary metabolites: The case of a fast-growing tropical species #Bagassa guianensis# Aubl.

Bossu J., Beauchêne J., Estevez Y., Duplais C., Clair B.
2016

Challenging evaluation of tropical forest biodiversity requires the reporting of taxonomic diversity but also the systematic characterization of wood properties in order to discover new promising species for timber industry. Among wood properties, the dimensional stability is regarded as a major technological characteristic to validate whether a wood species is adapted to commercial uses. Cell ...

Technologie des produits forestiers; Physiologie et biochimie végétales; Méthodes mathématiques et statistiques