Helical orientation of the microfibrils in tracheids, fibres and vessels

✍ Scribed by B. A. Meylan; B. G. Butterfield

• Book ID: 104746283
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 196 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0043-7719
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00372867

✦ Synopsis

The helical winding direction of microfibrils in the S 2 wall layer in the tracheids, fibres and vessel members of over 250 woody species, both indigenous and exotic, growing in New Zealand has been determined. A Z helix was observed in all the tracheids, fibres and narrower vessel members. The orientation in the wider vessel members could not always be determined with any certainty.