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Subject: [IAWA Forum] growth ring analysis with successive cambia
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:15:08 -0800
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C858AE.CA4B3620 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear IAWA forum members: I have colleague who is doing water relations work with a Great Basin = desert species: Sarcobatus vermiculatus (greasewood) and he is = interested in doing a growth ring analysis correlating recent past = annual rainfall with xylem production. I noted that this is a species = with so-called anomalous secondary growth that produces successive = cambia. So annual growth rings are not present as in the sense of = typical woody trees. Does anyone know if people have done something like = growth ring analyses with a species like this (lacking the normal = secondary growth from a single cambium)? Thanks, Paul Paul Schulte UNLV Biology paul.schulte@unlv.edu=20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C858AE.CA4B3620 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML dir=3Dltr><HEAD>=0A= <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dunicode">=0A= <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.3243" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD>=0A= <BODY>=0A= <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000>Dear IAWA forum members:<BR><BR>I have = colleague who is doing water relations work with a Great Basin desert = species: Sarcobatus vermiculatus (greasewood) and he is interested in = doing a growth ring analysis correlating recent past annual rainfall = with xylem production. I noted that this is a species with so-called = anomalous secondary growth that produces successive cambia. So annual = growth rings are not present as in the sense of typical woody trees. = Does anyone know if people have done something like growth ring analyses = with a species like this (lacking the normal secondary growth from a = single cambium)?<BR><BR>Thanks, Paul<BR><BR>Paul Schulte<BR>UNLV = Biology<BR>paul.schulte@unlv.edu </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C858AE.CA4B3620-- ======== Welcome All Anatomists! ========== About this IAWA Discussion Group, subscribing, unsubscribing, and archives: http://www.cof.orst.edu/org/IAWA About the IAWA and/or the IAWA Journal: http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/bio/sys/iawa The International Association of Wood Anatomists
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