其他摘要:Basal bending of Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) due to snow pressure is a type of damage that occurs in the juvenile stage. The purpose of this study is to clarify the effect of the microfibril angle (MFA) in the S2 layer of the latewood tracheid of annual rings on the basal bending. We selected six highly resistant varieties from candidate trees for snow pressure damage as the resistance group. A total of six varieties were used as the control group: three candidate trees and one plus tree with low resistance, and one local tree and one tree from the natural population with unknown resistance. Increment cores were collected at breast height from these 12 varieties and counted the number of annual rings from the pith as the annual ring number. The MFA of the resistance group was smaller than that of the control group in all annual rings investigated. There were significant differences between the groups in the 3rd and 5th rings. We examined the relationship between the size of basal bending and MFA in each variety, and found a high correlation in the annual rings formed in the juvenile stage. Generally, wood with small MFA exhibits a high modulus of elasticity. Thus, the resistance group had a high modulus of elasticity in the juvenile stage. Therefore, we concluded that small MFA in the juvenile stage can contribute decreasing stem leaning from loading of the crown with snow, so the trees in the resistant group would maintain the small basal bending.
关键词:雪圧害;根元曲がり;抵抗性育種;ヤング率;ミクロフィブリル傾角
其他关键词:snow pressure damage##basal bending##resistance breeding##modulus of elasticity##microfibril angle