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Relationships between cambial activity, cell differentiation and the localization of starch in storage tissues around the cambium in locally heated stems of Abies sachalinensis (Schmidt) Masters

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A study was made, in a cool-temperate zone, of the extent of cell division in the cambium, the extent of differentiation of cambial derivatives, and the localization of storage starch around the cambium in locally heated (22–26°C) stems of the evergreen conifer Abies sachalinensis (Schmidt) Masters during cambial dormancy and immediately after natural reactivation of the cambium. In locally heated regions of stems during cambial dormancy, heating induced localized reactivation of the cambium. However, the cells in the heated and reactivated cambium stopped dividing soon after only a few cells had been generated. In addition, no differentiation of the xylem and the disappearance of starch from storage tissues around the cambium were observed. In regions of stem that had been locally heated after natural reactivation of the cambium, cell division continued in the cambium and earlywood tracheids with a large radial diameter and secondary walls were formed, with abundant starch in the storage tissues around the cambium. Our results suggest that the extent of both cell division in the cambium and cell differentiation depends on the amount of starch in storage tissues around the cambium in the locally heated stems of an evergreen conifer growing in a cool-temperate zone.

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The research was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (no. JSPS-RFTF 96L00605).

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  1. Kansai Regional Breeding Office, Forest Tree Breeding Center, 1043 Uetsukinaka Sho-oh Katsuta , 709–4335, Okayama, Japan

    Yuichiro Oribe

  2. Laboratory of Wood Biology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 060–8589, Sapporo, Japan

    Ryo Funada

  3. Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 183–8509, Fuchu , Japan

    Takafumi Kubo

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Oribe, Y., Funada, R. & Kubo, T. Relationships between cambial activity, cell differentiation and the localization of starch in storage tissues around the cambium in locally heated stems of Abies sachalinensis (Schmidt) Masters. Trees 17, 185–192 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-002-0231-1

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