RE: [IAWA Forum] Radial water transport

From: Lloyd.Donaldson@ForestResearch.co.nz
Subject: RE: [IAWA Forum] Radial water transport
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 08:49:43 +1300

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----- Forwarded by Lloyd Donaldson/ForestResearch/NZ on 07/10/02 08:49 AM
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Hi Barbara

It is quite common for adjacent tracheids to overlap on their radial walls
and to have double columns of bordered pits. This provides a zig-zag
pathway for radial water movement within a growth ring. I suspect rays are
involved in between ring movement. Depending on species most ray parenchyma
cells are unlignified so water movement should be quite easy - and of
course ray tracheids where they occur, may have a role. Alot of work has
been done on water movement in rays from the point of view of preservative
treatment of wood. However this is based on wood that has been dried and
drastic changes in ray anatomy take place on drying with collapse of cells
to form large intercellular spaces (again depending on species). See IAWA
J. below
Matsumura,   J.,   Booker,  R.E.,  Donaldson,  L.A.,  Ridoutt,  B.G.  1998:
    Impregnation  of  radiata pine wood by vacuum treatment: Identification
    of  flow  paths  using fluorescent dye and confocal microscopy. IAWA J.
    19: 25-33.

Hope that helps.

Best regards - Lloyd

Dr Lloyd Donaldson - Microscopist
Future Forests
Forest Research,
Private Bag 3020, Rotorua, New Zealand
Ph 64 7 343 5581
email lloyd.donaldson@forestresearch.co.nz
www.forestresearch.co.nz/mnz



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                    to "Gartner,

                    Barbara"







I've been working in the area of radial water transport lately, and I
wondered if anyone else has been thinking about this, and what your ideas
might be.  In conifers, it is rare to have pitting on the tangential face
of tracheids, except sometimes a bit in the latewood.  How do you think
water gets from one growth ring to the next, and from one layer of
tracheids to the subsequently developed layer within that same growth ring?
Is there any evidence that water is transported in rays, ray tracheids, or
radial interstitial spaces?

We know from sapflow experiments that there *is* water transport in inner
growth rings, and given that the foliage is attached to the outer growth
rings there *must* be radial water movement.  I wonder if all the movement
is through diffusion through cell walls.

Thanks for any ideas,
Barb

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Barbara L. Gartner                barbara.gartner@orst.edu
Dept. of Wood Sci. & Engineering  voice:  541-737-4213
Oregon State University           fax:    541-737-3385
Corvallis, OR 97331
http://woodscience.oregonstate.edu/faculty/gartner/gartner.htm


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