The activities of the following five enzymes which are involved in the formation of lignin have been compared in reaction wood and in opposite wood: phenylalanine ammonia lyase (EC 4.3.1.5), caffeate ...
I met my first dawn redwood 30 years ago, on a walk across the UC Berkeley campus. As I recall, it was just around a corner from Trader Vic Bergeron's bronze saber-toothed cat. The tree was handsome, ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The majority of nuclei which persist in "mature" sieve elements of Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu and Chen and Sequoiadendron giganteum ...
I first learned of the dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) in my Woody Plant Materials course at Temple University in the 1980s. Apart from the one specimen on the Ambler Campus, I’d never ...
Silvics: The dawn redwood is native to China’s Sichuan and Hubei provinces where it is found in low-lying areas near streams and rivers, hence the local nickname “water fir”. A versatile and ...
HOMER — Retired botanist Ed Berg took me to a beach off Kachemak Way, east of town, to see petrified stumps of big metasequoia trees that died out millions of years ago. Then we looked at a living ...
A time capsule to the dinosaur age, dawn redwoods trees are growing in Michigan. You may think of redwoods as growing only along California's coast, where numerous national and state parks are filled ...
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