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Wood is a complex biological material, known also as secondary xylem. It is derived from the vascular cambium and develops in the stems and roots of most gymno-sperms and many angiosperms as a consequence of secondary growth [141]. It consists largely of an assemblage of thickened cell walls deposited by the cell cytoplasm during differentiation. In most cells the cytoplasm then dies leaving them devoid of any living contents.
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© 1980 B. G. Butterfield and B. A. Meylan
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Butterfield, B.G., Meylan, B.A. (1980). The Structure of wood. In: Three-dimensional structure of wood. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8146-4_1
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