2009
Wageningen, Netherlands
8th to 11th July 2009
Workshop: "Systems biology for plant design"
Nancy, France
16th to 17th March 2009
Seminar: "Reaction wood formation at stand, tree and cellular level"
2008
Dubendorf, Switzerland
27th to 29th October 2008
- Workshop: "Characterisation and Application of Cell Wall Macromolecules"
- Minutes of Steering Committee meeting - August 2008 (PDF-29K)
- Minutes of Management Committee meeting - October 2008 (PDF-44K)
Åbo, Finland
19th to 21st May 2008
Seminar: "Towards understanding wood, fibre, and paper - deeper knowledge through modern analytical tools"
Ljubljana, Slovenia
11th to 12th April 2008
Working Group 3 and 4 Meeting: "Wound Reaction in Wood"
Presentations:
- Aetiology and ecology of red-heart in beech (Fagus sylaytica) (PDF-150K)
- Aetiology and properties of wet-wood in silver fir (PDF-2767K)
- Anatomical response of the secondary phloem and cambium in conifers to mechanical wounding (PDF-1782K)
- Approaches to the modelling of the occurrence and shape of red-heart in Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) at the individual tree level (PDF-4721K)
- Compartmentalisation of injured Scots pine sapwood (PDF-316K)
- Discolouration of wood in the living tree and during processing (PDF-1344K)
- Influence of bark harvesting on xylem vessel density and size of 10 medicinal tree species (PDF-1530K)
- Investigation of tree growth and wood properties by means of x-ray computed tomography (PDF-268K)
- On the fine structure of wound reactions in the xylem of hardwoods (PDF-2259K)
- Reduction of discolouration during beech wood (Fagus sylvatica L.) conventional drying by use of leaves transpirational pre-drying (PDF-789K)
- The effect of severe drought on xylem formation in Norway spruce (PDF-101K)
- Wound response in beech investigated by 3D MRI (PDF-323K)
- Wound response in the mangrove species Avicennia marina (PDF-296K)
Espoo, Finland
15th February 2008
2007
Potsdam, Germany
26th to 28th September 2007
- Workshop: “Structure and Function of the Primary and Secondary Cell Wall”
- Abstracts from Potsdam workshop (PDF-876K)
- Steering Committe Minutes - Septemner 2007 (PDF-25K)
- Minutes of Management Committee meeting - September 2007 (PDF-21K)
Edinburgh, Scotland
19th to 20th April 2007
- Working Groups 3 and 4 meeting: "Modelling from Plant Wall to Plank"
- Final report from modelling from plant wall to plank workshop (PDF-115K)
Presentations:
- Control of wood properties by the means of forest tree breeding and silviculture (PDF-2680K)
- How do we use models at different scales to help understand the behaviour of timber containing reaction wood? (PDF-3722K)
- Modelling effects of site on fibre pulp and handsheet properties of Eucalyptus Globulus (PDF-691K)
- Properties of timber containing reaction wood (PDF-2119K)
Montpellier, France
26th to 27th March 2007
- Working groups 2, 3 and 4 meeting: “Regulation of lignin biosynthesis and reaction wood induction”
- Agenda of 2007 Montpellier working group meeting (PDF-58K)
- Minutes of Management Committee meeting - March 2007 (PDF-63K)
2006
Warsaw,Poland
19th to 20th October 2006
Presentations:
- AFM characterization of the mechanical properties of wood at the cell wall level: a prospective study (PDF-339K)
- Factors Affecting Compression Wood Formation in Sitka Spruce Wood Formation in Sitka Spruce and Scots Pine (PDF-1550K)
- Formation of juvenile wood in Robiniapseudoacacia L. and related wood properties: Part 1 (PDF-2906K)
- Formation of juvenile wood in Robiniapseudoacacia L. and related wood properties: Part 2 (PDF-3811K)
- Galactan in compression wood (CW): Detection by immuno-fluorescence and thoughts about its role (PDF-2992K)
- Hygroelastic behaviour of compression wood tracheids based on analyical composite micromechanics (PDF-3188K)
- Mechanical stimuli and vascular tissue differentiation (PDF-1734K)
- Peroxidases and lignification in xylem of Norway spruce (PDF-870K)
- Reaction Wood Paradigm for Adaptive Response (PDF-3070K)
- Transverse shrinkage of poplar tension wood at cell wall level (PDF-1016K)
- Xylan biosynthesis and modification in poplar (PDF-1719K)
Florence, Italy
16th May 2006
Minutes of Management Committee meeting - May 2006 (PDF-22K)
2005
Montpellier, France
3rd to 5th November 2005
This was an opportunity for scientists to meet each other, identify the main questions to be addressed by each working group, and to report on the experimental methods available and expertise in the laboratories which are part of this Action.
- Montpellier workshop website
- Agenda of 2005 Montpellier workshop (PDF-12K)
- Minutes of Management Committee meeting - November 2005 (PDF-22K)
Brussels, Belgium
1st to 7th July 2005
Minutes of Management Committee meeting - July 2005 (PDF-25K)
Brussels, Belgium
19th April 2005
Minutes of kick-off meeting - April 2005 (PDF-198K)
