초록 |
Recently, the deployment of poplars as a short-rotation fiber crop has been of interest to mitigate the increasing amount of plantation-grown short fiber resources derived from the Southern Hemisphere, as well as in the context of global climate change, both as a means to repidly sequester carbon and as a feedstock for potential bioenergy production. Knowledge on the utility of hybrid poplars in the value-added secondary wood-processing sector, however, is very limited. To improve this situation, the variation in chemical pulping and wood quality of five hybrid poplar genotypes of similar age, harvested from a common site in British Columbia, Canada, was evaluated. |