Nanomaterials and Chemical Modifications for Enhanced Key Wood Properties: A Review. [PDF]
Nanomaterials (Basel), 2019 This work briefly reviews the research milestones in the area of wood chemical modification, focusing on acetylated and furfurylated wood which have been scaled up, and exploits the solutions that nanotechnology can offer to wood protection as an ...
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Improving wood properties for wood utilization through multi-omics integration in lignin biosynthesis. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2018 A multi-omics quantitative integrative analysis of lignin biosynthesis can advance the strategic engineering of wood for timber, pulp, and biofuels. Lignin is polymerized from three monomers (monolignols) produced by a grid-like pathway.
Wang JP +36 more
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Quantitative genetic parameters for growth and wood properties in Eucalyptus "urograndis" hybrid using near-infrared phenotyping and genome-wide SNP-based relationships. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 A thorough understanding of the heritability, genetic correlations and additive and non-additive variance components of tree growth and wood properties is a requisite for effective tree breeding. This knowledge is essential to maximize genetic gain, that
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Genome-Wide Association Studies to Improve Wood Properties: Challenges and Prospects. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2018 Wood formation is an excellent model system for quantitative trait analysis due to the strong associations between the transcriptional and metabolic traits that contribute to this complex process.
Du Q +9 more
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Genetic architecture underlying the lignin biosynthesis pathway involves noncoding RNAs and transcription factors for growth and wood properties in Populus. [PDF]
Plant Biotechnol J, 2019 Summary Lignin provides structural support in perennial woody plants and is a complex phenolic polymer derived from phenylpropanoid pathway. Lignin biosynthesis is regulated by coordinated networks involving transcription factors (TFs), microRNAs (miRNAs)
Quan M +8 more
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The Larix kaempferi genome reveals new insights into wood properties.
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2022 Here, through single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing, we present a high-quality genome sequence of the Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi), a conifer species with great value for wood production and ecological afforestation.
Chao Sun +9 more
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Effects of chemical modification and nanotechnology on wood properties
Nanotechnology Reviews, 2021 As a green material, wood is widely used in building decoration, railway construction, and other fields. However, the wood itself has inherent defects of being easy to absorb water and deform, rot, and decrease in strength.
Wen Bi +7 more
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Mechanical Properties of Wood: A Review
Forests, 2023 The use of wood in construction requires knowledge of the mechanical properties and the particularities that wood presents in comparison with other materials used for structural purposes such as steel, concrete, brick, or stone. The introduction mentions
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European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, 2023 This paper describes the development and characterisation of wood-filled polylactic acid (PLA) composite filaments for application in fused filament fabrication three-dimensional (3D) printing.
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A Critical Review on Wood-Based Polymer Composites: Processing, Properties, and Prospects
Polymers, 2022 Waste recycling is one of the key aspects in current day studies to boost the country’s circular economy. Recycling wood from construction and demolished structures and combining it with plastics forms wood-polymer composites (WPC) which have a very wide
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