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Chemistry and Industry of Forest Products ›› 2021, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2): 93-102.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-2417.2021.02.013

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Wood and Fiber Properties, and Pulping Performance of Four Taxodium Hybrid 'Zhongshanshan'

Shan XU1, Shanqi WAN1, Shufang WU1,*(), Chaoguang YU2, Yunlong YIN2   

  1. 1. College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
    2. Jiangsu Engineering Research Center forTaxodiumRich. Germplasm Innovation and Propagation; Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China
  • Received:2020-07-02 Online:2021-04-28 Published:2021-05-08
  • Contact: Shufang WU E-mail:shufangwu@njfu.edu.cn

Abstract:

The wood densities, crystallinities, chemical compositions, macrostructure, fiber morphological characteristics and pulping performance of four 11-year-old Taxodium 'Zhongshanshan' (T. 'Zhongshanshan'405, T. 'Zhongshanshan'406, T. 'Zhongshanshan'407, T. 'Zhongshanshan'502) and their parents, Taxodium distichum and Taxodium mucronatum were studied. The results showed that the basic densities of four T. 'Zhongshanshan' woods arranged from 0.24 to 0.33 g/cm3, which were slightly lower than those of T. mucronatum (0.33 g/cm3) and T. distichum (0.34 g/cm3). The arithmetic average and weighted average length of T. 'Zhongshanshan' wood fiber were 1.09-1.31 mm and 1.52-1.73 mm, respectively, which were between that of T. mucronatum and T. distichum. The ratios of length to diameter of wood fiber of T. 'Zhongshanshan' were close to that of T. mucronatum, which were lower than that of T. distichum. The total polysaccharide mass fraction of T. 'Zhongshanshan' wood was similar to that of their parents, which accounted for about 60% of the dry weigh of wood. Also, lignin mass fraction was about 31.0%-33.2% of the dry weight of wood, which were slightly lower than that of parents. The ash mass fraction of T. 'Zhongshanshan' wood was higher than that of parents and all were less than 1%. Typical coniferous tracheids could be seen on the cross section of T. 'Zhongshanshan' wood. The parenchyma cells were scattered and a large number of traumatic resin canals could be seen at the junction of early and late wood. The tangential section presented an uniserial wood ray, consisting of 2-22 cells. Additionally, the pulping performance of T. 'Zhongshanshan' 406 and T. 'Zhongshanshan' 407 were investigated. The kappa number of the pulp was around 38 when the cooking yield achieved 45%-46%. The investigation on oxygen delignification of kraft pulp found that the delignification rate was about 64%, good and the delignification selectivity was good. The brightness of the pulps achieved 75%-78%(ISO) after DED bleaching.

Key words: Taxodium 'Zhongshanshan', wood density, crystallinity, chemical composition, fiber property, pulping performance

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