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Totally 26 provenance stands of 17-year-old Korean pine were selected for investigating wood properties and growth characters in Mao’ershan Experimental Forest Farm of Northeast Forestry University in 1999. The anatomical property indexes, including tracheid length, tracheid diameter and wall-indiameter ratio, and the physical property indexes, such as growth ring width, late wood percentage and growth ring density, were measured for wood properties. Growth character indexes, including tree height and diameter at breast height, were also measured. The analytical results showed that there exited obviously difference in wood property indexes between different provenances, which is suggested that wood properties are controlled by their genetic differences. The growth character indexes of Korean pines presented significant difference and they might also be controlled by their genetic differences. Most parameters of wood properties mainly varied in the direction of longitude, but the parameters of growth characters varied in the direction of latitude.
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Biography: WANG Hui-mei (1973-), female, assistant professor in Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, P.R. China.
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Hui-mei, W., De-an, X., Wen-jie, W. et al. Genetic variations of wood properties and growth characters of Korean pines from different provenances. Journal of Forestry Research 13, 277–280 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860091
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