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 ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Commonly known as dawn redwood, this ...

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 ...

At a corner house in San Anselmo, a different redwood grows on three corners of the lot. The redwoods are the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens; the Sierra redwood, Sequoiadendron giganteum; and the ...

About a year ago in this space, I wrote about a fascinating tree — the bald cypress, Taxodium distichum — that was unique in that it is a conifer that is deciduous rather than evergreen. Conifers, as ...