Woody trees

Hargreaves, C. Menzies, M. (2007). Organogenesis and cryopreservation of juvenile radiata pane. Vol. 6, pp. 51-66. In Jain, S.M. Haggman H. (Ed(s).). (2007). Protocols for Mkropropagation of Woody Trees and Fruits, Springer-Verlag. 

Protocols for Micropropagation of Woody Trees and Pruits, VoL 20, pp. 213-220. Springer-Verlag. 

Paek, K.Y. Chakrabarty, D. (2003). Micropropagation of woody plants using bioreactor. In Jain, S.M Ishii, K (Ed(s).). (2003) Micropropagation of woody trees and fruits. Dordrecht, The Netherlands Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 735-756. 

Experiments with excised plant parts are usually done in closed petri dishes or coated paper containers with clear plastic lids. The containers are lined with moist filter paper to keep plant tissue from dehydrating. When possible, leaves should be placed in water reservoirs. Leaves of many herbaceous plant species can be maintained in convenient capped water reservoirs used by florists to maintain corsages (e.g., Aqua-Pics ), but leaf terminals of woody trees may require water reservoirs constructed from large test tubes and sealed with cork or rubber stoppers, cotton batting and parafilm, or similar materials. 

Conventionally, woody trees were broadly classified as softwood or gymnosperm and hardwood or angiosperm. Hardwood comes from angiosperms, such as oak, eucalyptus, and alder, which are dicots (Octave and Thomas, 2009). Softwood usually comes from evergreen conifer trees like pine or spruce. Other classifications of forest-based plants are broad-leaved trees and pine-leaved trees. Almost 46% of biorefinery prefers raw materials from conifer species, mainly spruce, pine, etc., and 31% of broad-leaves such as eucalyptus. Mostly stem wood is preferred as a suitable feedstock for the biorefinery process. Approximately 8% of the known biorefinery processes utilize all parts of the tree (Fitzpatrick et al., 2010). Thus the consensus in the biorefinery industry is that the feedstock selection should be based on the main constituents of the wood (cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin) and not on specific chemicals (glucose, xylose, etc.) generally considered in conventional fermentation processes. 

Sandalwood Oil, East Indian. The use of sandalwood oil for its perfumery value is ancient, probably extending back some 4000 years. Oil from the powdered wood and roots of the tree Santalum album L. is produced primarily in India, under government control. Good quaUty oil is a pale yellow to yellow viscous Hquid characterized by an extremely soft, sweet—woody, almost ariimal—balsarnic odor. The extreme tenacity of the aroma makes it an ideal blender—fixative for woody-Oriental—floral fragrance bases. It also finds extensive use for the codistillation of other essential oils, such as rose, especially in India. There the so-called attars are made with sandalwood oil distilled over the flowers or by distillation of these flowers into sandalwood oil. The principal constituents of sandalwood oil are shown in Table 11 (37) and Figure 2. 

Fiber Analysis. Paper may be composed of one or several types of fibers, eg, animal, vegetable, mineral, and synthetic (see Eibers). Paper is generally composed of woody vegetable fibers obtained from coniferous (softwood) and deciduous (hardwood) trees. QuaUtative and quantitative methods have been developed to determine the fibrous constituents in a sheet of paper (see TAPPI T401). However, the proliferation in the number and types of pulping processes used have made the analysis of paper a much more complex problem. Comprehensive reviews of the methods are given in References 20 and 23. 

Bois de Rose. Bois de rose oil is obtained by steam distillation of wood chips from South American rosewood trees, Aniba rosaeodora. The tree, a wild evergreen, grows mainly in the Amazon basin. The oil is used as obtained in perfumery for its sweet, woody-floral odor and as a source of linalool [78-70-6] (3), which it contains to the extent of 70%. Linalool distilled from bois de rose oil is also used directly in perfumery and for conversion to esters, eg, the acetate (1). 

The remainder of this chapter will deal with natural polymers. These are large molecules, produced by plants and animals, that carry out the many life-sustaining processes in a living cell. The cell membranes of plants and the woody structure of trees are composed in large part of cellulose, a polymeric carbohydrate. We will look at the structures of a variety of different carbohydrates in Section 23.3. Another class of natural polymers are the proteins. Section 23.4 deals with these polymeric materials that make up our tissues, bone, blood, and even hair. ... 

In many ecosystems, plants tend to pattern themselves as pure stands or as individuals spaced in rather specific densities or configurations. Many desert species show obvious zones of inhibition around which few, if any, alien species are able to invade. These patterns often cannot be adequately explained by competition alone, and are probably caused by a combination of factors including allelopathy. The phenomenon happens with herbaceous plants as well as woody shrubs and trees. 

Most of the TCE that is taken up by the poplars is expected to volatilize slowly to the atmosphere. A portion will be metabolized by the leaves and woody tissue of the trees. 

The family Hernandiaceae consists of four genera Hernandia, Illigera, Gyrocarpus, and Sparattanthelium, and about 60 species of trees, shrubs, and woody climbers widespread in tropical regions. An example of Hernandiaceae is Hernandia ovigera L., which is grown as a tropical street tree. Hernandiaceae are member of the order Laurales and are known to abound with aporphines and lignans. 

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