Caracterização da estrutura anatômica do lenho, dos anéis de crescimento e dos canais de resina de árvores de Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis Barr. et Golf. / Characterization of the anatomical structure of the wood, the growth rings and the resin ducts in Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis Barr. et Golf.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The research on resin tapping trees with pine species have shown the effect of factors that affect the production and quality of resin, related with the species, genetic variability, growth rate, age, forest management, etc.. The gum-resin extraction practices, the concentration, frequency of application of chemical stimulants, the time of year that panels are opening, etc., have been in the same manner, discussed. However, there is need for further research directed to study the formation and structure of the wood and resin canals from the pine trees. Therefore, this work aimed to characterize the anatomical structure of wood, the tree rings and resin canals, through methodology of histology and X-ray densitometry, of resin tapped and not resin tapped Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis trees samples, of three diameter classes. Pine trees, in forest plantation established in 1969, in the Ecological Experimental Station of Itirapina, from the Forestry Institute of São Paulo State, were measured and stratified into three classes of diameter of the trunk. The pine trees have been resin tapped since 2004, with the opening of two simultaneous and opposing panels. Sixty samples of pine wood trees were extracted from the tree trunk through a non-destructive method, and in the laboratory, (i) examined and described the macro- and microscopic anatomical structure of wood, (ii) characterized the tree rings and determined the wood apparent density by X-ray densitometry, (iii) characterized and described the ducts for axial and radial resin and its inter-connection. The test results showed that (i) the macro- and microscopic anatomical structure of wood and the tree rings are characteristic of the species, (ii) the false tree rings occur in the early wood and latewood of the tree rings due to climate change (iii) the analysis of tree rings showed that 38 years have proven the date of planting of the trees, (iv) the length and thickness of tracheids wall did not differ in the three diameter classes of the trunk, (v) the tracheids lumen width and diameter showed significant differences, with higher values in the larger diameter class trunk, (vi) the Xray densitometry allowed the demarcation of the tree rings limits and determination of the axial resin canals frequency (vii) the wood apparent density average was significantly different between the trees in high class diameter from the medium-low, (viii) the axial resin canals can be found more frequently in the latewood and had larger diameter in the lowest diameter class, (ix) the wood and resin canals characteristics from the resin tapped and no resin tapped faces did not show significant differences.

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resin ducts estrutura da madeira resinas vegetais - qualidade. madeira - anatomia x-ray densitometry pinus caribaea wood anatomy tree ring. pinheiro

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