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New Zealand Journal of Forestry (2015) 59(4): 18–22
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Professional Paper
Wood quality - what can we learn from cell-wall chemistry?

Philip J. Harris *,1 and Clemens M. Altaner 2

1 School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland Email: p.harris@auckland.ac.nz
2 School of Forestry, University of Canterbury
*Corresponding author.

Abstract: Compression wood is chemically different from normal, opposite and flexure wood. Based on these chemical differences, we have investigated several techniques that could potentially be developed into methods that could be used in commercial situations to identify and segregate compression wood. The leading contender is near infrared spectroscopy.
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