Impact Factor: 2.2

Published since January 1, 1947

Holzforschung

Cellulose – Hemicelluloses – Lignin – Wood Extractives

ISSN: 1437-434X

Editor-in-Chief: Lennart Salmén

Editorial Board: Geoffrey Daniel, Holger Militz, Thomas Rosenau, Herbert Sixta, Tapani Vuorinen, Dimitris S. Argyropoulos, Ingo Burgert, Dmitry V. Evtuguin, Charles E. Frazier, Kazuhiko Fukushima, Wolfgang Gindl-Altmutter, Akira Isogai, John F. Kadla, Gerald Koch, Dominique Lachenal, Shawn D. Mansfield, Jeffrey J. Morrell, Peter Niemz, Antje Potthast, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Robert W. Rice, José del Rio, Tor P. Schultz, Toshiyuki Takano, Hans Theliander, Johannes Welling, Hiroshi Yoshihara

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Holzforschung (HF) is an international scholarly journal that publishes cutting-edge research on the biology, chemistry, physics and technology of wood and wood components. High quality papers about biotechnology and tree genetics are also welcome. Rated year after year as one of the top scientific journals in the category of Pulp and Paper (ISI Journal Citation Index), Holzforschung represents innovative, high quality basic and applied research. The German title reflects the journal's origins in a long scientific tradition, but all articles are published in English to stimulate and promote cooperation between experts all over the world. Ahead-of-print publishing ensures fastest possible knowledge transfer.

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Biology, chemistry, physics and technology of wood and wood components
Biotechnology and tree genetics

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History

Holzforschung was founded in 1947. At the start, German was the sole publishing language of Holzforschung. In 1955 it became also possible to publish in French and English, and in 1993 the journal switched to an English only publication. This change was necessary as after World War II German was no longer the leading language in the natural sciences. With the significant rise in international attention and distribution, Holzforschung paid tribute to the linguistic needs of the wood science community around the world.

Other publications in the field
Wood Composites. Materials Manufacturing and Engineering. J. Paulo Davim, Alfredo Aguilera (Eds.) De Gruyter. 2016.
Nordic Pulp & Paper Research Journal

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Journal Impact Factor	2.2	2023, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor	2.1	2023, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2024)
Journal Citation Indicator	0.83	2023, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2024)
CiteScore	4.6	2023, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2024)
SCImago Journal Rank	0.464	2023, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2024; Data Source: Scopus)
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	0.864	2023, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2024; Data Source: Scopus)

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Editorial

Editor-in-Chief
Lennart Salmén, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, lsalmen@kth.se

Editorial Board
Geoffrey Daniel, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Holger Militz, University of Göttingen, Germany
Thomas Rosenau, BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Herbert Sixta, Aalto University, Finland
Tapani Vuorinen, Aalto University, Finland

Advisory Board
Dimitris S. Argyropoulos, North Carolina State University, USA
Ingo Burgert, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Dmitry V. Evtuguin, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Charles E. Frazier, Virginia Tech, USA
Kazuhiko Fukushima, Nagoya University, Japan
Wolfgang Gindl-Altmutter, BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Akira Isogai, University of Tokyo, Japan
John F. Kadla, University of British Columbia, Canada
Gerald Koch, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Germany
Dominique Lachenal, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Shawn D. Mansfield, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jeffrey J. Morrell, Oregon State University, USA
Peter Niemz, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Antje Potthast, BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Arthur J. Ragauskas, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Robert W. Rice, University of Maine, USA
José C. del Rio, Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology Seville, Spain
Tor P. Schultz, Mississippi State University, USA
Toshiyuki Takano, University of Kyoto, Japan
Hans Theliander, Chalmers University, Sweden
Johannes Welling, Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Germany
Hiroshi Yoshihara, Shimane University, Japan

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Volume 78 Issue 10

October 2024

Publicly Available October 2, 2024

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Wood Growth/Morphology

August 29, 2024

Wood discrimination of six commonly traded Phoebe and Machilus species using high-resolution plastid and nuclear DNA barcodes

Yang Lu, Lichao Jiao, Shoujia Liu, Tuo He, Xiaomei Jiang, Yafang Yin

Page range: 547-561

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Phoebe and Machilus trees, whose wood is known as Nanmu in China, face endangerment owing to long-term manmade destruction and climate change. Therefore, effective and accurate forensic tools to identify Nanmu species are required. This study developed a method for DNA identification of woods from six commonly traded Phoebe and Machilus species. DNA was efficiently extracted from oil cell-rich wood tissues, DNA barcodes were screened, species were compared, and a Nanmu DNA database was constructed. Comparison and analysis involved 26 sets of plastid genomes of Phoebe and Machilus . The five highest variable regions (Pi>0.009; psbA-trnH, psbJ, psbJ-petA, rpl32-trnL, and ycf 1 ) were identified, and three nuclear regions (ITS, LEAFY, and RPB2 ) were compared. Among single DNA fragments, the nuclear DNA region LEAFY proved optimal for identifying Nanmu species, while psbA-trnH + psbJ + ycf1 was the optimal plastid combination locus. Compared with distance-based (TaxonDNA) and machine-learning analyses, the tree-based method had a lower success rate for species identification. Four labelled Nanmu samples were selected to validate the method and clustered with P. zhennan and P. sheareri data based on the LEAFY region and plastid combination locus. These findings will contribute to the conservation, classification, architecture maintenance, and trade monitoring of Nanmu natural resources.

September 3, 2024

Wood density and chemical composition variation of Eucalyptus urophylla clone in different environments

Vaniele Bento dos Santos, Maria Fernanda Vieira Rocha, João Filipi Rodrigues Guimarães, Leonardo Sarno Soares Oliveira, Maria Naruna Felix de Almeida, Nauan Ribeiro Marques Cirilo, Thayanne Caroline Castor Neto, Ana Márcia Macedo Ladeira Carvalho, Graziela Baptista Vidaurre

Page range: 562-569

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Variability in Eucalyptus wood density and chemical properties is crucial to understanding important factors for the forest-based industry, such as sampling methods and wood suitability as raw material. This study aimed to evaluate the basic density and chemical composition of the radial positions of young wood from the Eucalyptus urophylla clone grown under different precipitation levels. Trees from E. urophylla clonal plantations were collected in Inhambupe, Jandaíra and Itanagra, Bahia State, Brazil. Trees’ basic density and chemical composition (total extractive, lignin, hemicelluloses and α -cellulose) were determined based on the basal log of each tree, at four radial positions (1, 2, 3 and 4). It was found that the basic density and α -cellulose of wood are influenced by the cambial age and the site rainfall. There was greater increase in sections close to the bark (positions 1 and 4) and in more humid environments (sites Itanagra and Jandaríra). This finding highlights the association between wood basic density and chemical composition, mainly in the holocellulose content.

August 21, 2024

The accumulation of cadmium in poplar trees during three consecutive years

Bixin Cheng, Gong Rong, Siya Ying, Suming Kong, Yin Chu, Shengquan Liu

Page range: 570-580

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A three-year pot experiment was designed to investigate cadmium (Cd) accumulation in the various parts of poplar ( Populus deltoides Bartr. cv. ‘Lux’ I-69/55) by setting up 5 Cd application treatments (0, 5, 20, 50, and 100 mg/kg dry soil). The results showed that poplar exhibited a high tolerance to Cd stress, with Cd uptake significantly increasing across all plant parts as soil Cd levels rose. In general, leaves exhibited the highest Cd concentration while stems had the lowest. An upward increase trend of the accumulation of Cd in the aboveground parts from the base wood, along the stem to the branch, until the leaves, as well as a radially outward increase of Cd from the wood near the pith, to the wood near the bark, and finally to the bark, were observed. Over the three successive years, poplar trees exhibited a generally increasing extraction ability in terms of Cd concentration and the bioconcentration factor (BCF) in their aboveground parts, attributed to the enhanced leaf transpiration and conducting tissue development. The BCFs of various parts of poplar ranged from 0.09 to 6.30, following the trend of leaf > bark > branch > root > stem.

Wood Biochemistry

Open Access September 5, 2024

Degradation of Pinus sylvestris and Populus tremula by laccate Ganoderma species

Marta Cortina-Escribano, Aitor Barbero-López, Petri Kilpeläinen, Henri Vanhanen, Antti Haapala

Page range: 581-585

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Wood chips and sawdust are used for cultivating Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms. In Northern Europe, side-streams of Pinus sylvestris are highly abundant, however as cultivation substrate they inhibit the growth of G. lucidum . To identify the changes in lignocellulosic composition after fungal degradation, the major lignocellulosic components in P. sylvestris and an optimal substrate for G. lucidum , Populus tremula were analyzed. Populus tremula was evenly degraded while the glucan fraction of P. sylvestris was not degraded and its lignin fraction was consumed almost completely. Despite not being an optimal substrate, P. sylvestris was successfully delignified by G. lucidum .

Corrigendum

Publicly Available August 21, 2024

Corrigendum to: Degradation of beech wood by Kretzschmaria deusta: its heterogeneity and influence on dynamic and static bending properties

Valentino Cristini, Jan Tippner, Patrik Nop, Jan Zlámal, Mojtaba Hassan Vand, Vít Šeda

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Online ISSN: 1437-434X
Print ISSN: 0018-3830
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: January 1, 1947
Publication Frequency: 12 Issues per Year
Audience: Researchers in the field of biology, chemistry, physics and technology of wood and wood components