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CT investigation of 3D liquid pathways in the anatomical structure of Norway spruce wood during imbibition

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Wood permeability is a macroscopic property resulting from complex pathways at the cellular level. In this study, high-resolution X-ray CT scans were performed during longitudinal imbibition in Norway spruce to investigate the role of wood rays and tracheids network in liquid migration. A customized setup was designed to maintain the bottom face of a wooden cylinder in contact with water, without vibration, despite the sample rotation required during each scan. The results highlighted a contrasted role of latewood and earlywood in water migration. Liquid imbibition was fast in latewood, because the bordered pits are less prone to aspiration than in earlywood, due to their smaller diameter and larger cell wall thickness. In earlywood, the migration pattern was complex due to pit aspiration that isolate tracheids clusters. Indeed, the images revealed a significant contribution of wood rays in the migration pathways. Consequently, tracheids were not progressively filled in the longitudinal direction from one tracheid to the next, but they were filled laterally with water coming from wood rays at different heights of the cells. This explained entrapped air bubbles in the lumens and led to a 3D heterogeneous liquid distribution.
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hal-04448689 , version 1 (09-02-2024)

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Benoît Martin, Julien Colin, Patrick Perré, Joel Casalinho, Mahamadou Mounkaila, et al.. CT investigation of 3D liquid pathways in the anatomical structure of Norway spruce wood during imbibition. Holzforschung, 2022, 76 (7), pp.592-603. ⟨10.1515/hf-2021-0154⟩. ⟨hal-04448689⟩
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