Original articles
Song-Yung Wang, Cheng-Jung Lin, Chih-Ming Chiu, Jin-Hau Chen, Te-Hsin Yung
Dynamic modulus of elasticity and bending properties of young Taiwania trees grown with different thinning and pruning treatments 1
Yingcheng Hu, Tetsuya Nakao, Takahisa Nakai, Jiyou Gu, Fenghu Wang
Dynamic properties of three types of wood-based composites 7
Yingcheng Hu, Tetsuya Nakao, Takahisa Nakai, Jiyou Gu, Fenghu Wang
Vibrational properties of wood plastic plywood 13
Frank Lam, J. David Barrett, Shiro Nakajima
Influence of knot area ratio on the bending strength properties of Canadian Douglas fir timber used in Japanese post and beam housing 18
Ragil Widyorini, Jianying Xu, Takashi Watanabe, Shuichi Kawai
Chemical changes of steam-pressed kenaf core binderless particleboards 26
Atsushi Mori, Kazuhisa Tashiro, Kyoko Makita, Masahiro Takatani, Tadashi Okamoto
Development of room-temperature curing aqueous emulsion-type acrylic adhesive I: effect of monomer composition on the initial adhesive strength 33
Atsushi Mori, Kazuhisa Tashiro, Kyoko Makita, Masahiro Takatani, Tadashi Okamoto
Development of room-temperature curing aqueous emulsion-type acrylic adhesive II: effect of monomer composition on final adhesive strength 38
Md. Tariqur Rabbani Bhuiyan, Nobuyuki Hirai
Study on crystalline behavior of heat-treated wood cellulose during treatments in water 42
Hidenori Tozuka, Michikazu Ota, Hisayoshi Kofujita, Kouetsu Takahashi
Synthesis of dihydroxyphenacyl glycosides for biological and medicinal study: β-Oxoacteoside from Paulownia tomentosa 48
Tomoe Nakayama, Tsuyoshi Yoshimura, Yuji Imamura
Feeding activities of Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki and Reticulitermes speratus (Kolbe) as dependent on moisture content of wood 60
Kunio Kawamoto, Kengo Ishimaru, Yuji Imamura
Reactivity of wood charcoal with ozone 66
Miyusse Sakasegawa, Mitsuyoshi Yatagai
Composition of pyrolyzate from Japanese green tea 73
Notes
Dapeng Bao, Tadanori Aimi, Yutaka Kitamoto
Cladistic relationships among the Pleurotus ostreatus complex, the Pleurotus pulmonarius complex, and Pleurotus eryngii based on the mitochondrial small subunit ribosomal DNA sequence analysis 77
Hiroto Suhara, Nitaro Maekawa, Takashi Kubayashi, Ryuichiro Kondo
Specific detection of a basidiomycete, Phlebhia brevispora associated with butt rot of Chamaecyparis obtuse, by PCR-based analysis 77
Rapid communication
Aya Fujimoto, Yuji Matsumoto, Hou-min Chang, Gyosuke Meshitsuka
Quantitative evaluation of milling effect on lignin structure during the isolation process of milled wood lignin 89
Announcement 92
Original articles
Jianjun Zhu, Naoki Tadooka, Katsuhiko Takata, Akio Koizumi
Growth and wood quality of sugi (Crypromeria japonica) planted in Akita prefecture II: juvenile/mature wood determination of aged trees 95
Jyunichi Ohshima, Shinso Yokota, Nobuo Yoshizawa, Toshihiro Ona
Examination of within-tree variations and the heights representing whole-tree values of derived wood properties for quasi-non-destructive breeding of Eucalyptus camaldulensis and Eucalyptus globulus as quality pulpwood 102
Takato Nakano
Effects of quenching on relaxation properties of wet wood 112
Petri P. Karenlampi, Pekka Tynjaja, Pasi Strom
Phase transformations of wood cell wall water 118
Eiichi Obataya, Joseph Gril
Swelling of acetylated wood I: swelling in organic liquids 124
Eiichi Obataya, Joseph Gril, Patrick Perre
Shrinkage of cane (Arundo donax) II: effect of drying condition on the intensity of cell collapse 130
Satoshi Sakuragawa, Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Tomoyuki Kaneko, Teruo Makita
Influence of wood wall panels on physiological and psychological responses 136
Shin-ichirou Iwamoto, Kazuya Minato
Influences of moisture content on the catalysis of sulfur dioxide and attainable properties in a vapor-phase treatment of wood with formaldehyde 141
Katsunobu Ehara, Shiro Saka
Decomposition behavior of cellulose in supercritical water, subcritical water, and their combined treatments 148
Ragnar Jonsson
The end consumer's choice of floorcovering in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom: a comparative pilot study of substitute competition 154
Notes
Futoshi Ishiguri, Noritaka Masubuchi, Shinso Yokota, Nobuo Yoshizawa
Changes in the physical and chemical properties of six Japanese softwoods caused by lengthy smoke-heating treatment 161
Anupun Terdwongworakul, Vittaya Punsuwan, Warunee Thanapase, Satoru Tsuchikawa
Rapid assessment of wood chemical properties and pulp yield of Eucalyptus camaldulensis in Thailand tree plantations by near infrared spectroscopy for improving wood selection for high quality pulp 167
Iori Tomoda, Yuji Matsumoto, Gyosuke Meshitsuka
Semi-quantitative method to evaluate the α-carbonyl content in lignin 172
Sanro Tachibana, Etsuko Watanabe, Junichiro Ueno, Kiyoka Tokubuchi, Kazutaka Itoh
Isolation of phenylisoserine methyl ester form the leaves of Taxus cuspidata var. nana 176
SanroTachibana, Hiroko Ishikawa, Kazutaka Itoh
Antifungal activities of compounds isolated from the leaves of Taxus cuspidata var. nana against plant pathogenic fungi 181
Kohsuke Kurose, Mitsuyoshi Yatagai
Components of the essential oils of Azadirachta indica A. Juss, Azadirachta siamensis Velton and Azadirachta excelsa (Jack) Jacobs and their comparison 185
Jie Liu, Rumi Fujita, Michiko Sato, Kuniyoshi Shimizu, Fumiko Konishi, Kiyoshi Noda, Shoichiro Kumamoto, Chie Ueda, Hisatoshi Tajiri, Shuhei Kaneko, Yoshitaro Suimi, Ryuichiro Kondo
The effect of strain, growth stage and cultivating condition of Ganoderma lucidum on 5α-reductase inhibition 189
Rapid communications
Takahisa Nakai, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Tetsuya Nakao
The relationship between macroscopic strain and crystal lattice strain in wood under uniaxial stress in the fiber direction 193
Masahiro Matsunaga, Hiroshi Matsunaga, Yutaka Kataoka, Hiroaki Matsui
Improved water permeability of sugi heartwood by pretreatment with supercritical carbon dioxide 195
Announcement 198
Original articles
Yoko Midorikawa, Yoji Ishida, Minoru Fujita
Transverse shape analysis of xylem ground tissues by the Fourier transform image analysis I: trail for statistical expression of cell arrangements with fluctuation 201
Yoko Midorikawa, Minoru Fujita
Transverse shape analysis of xylem ground tissues by the Fourier transform image analysis II: cell wall directions and reconstruction of cell shapes 209
Bruno Clair, Bernard Thibaut, Junji Sugiyama
On the detachment of the gelatinous layer in tension wood fiber 218
Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Kentaro Abe, Yoshiharu Arakawa, Takashi Okuyama, Joseph Gril
Role of the gelatinous layer (G-layer) on the origin of the physical properties of the tension wood of Acer sieboldianum 222
Md. Iftekhar Shams, Hiroyuki Yano, Keijirou Endou
Compressive deformation of wood impregnated with low molecular weight phenol formaldehyde (PF) resin III: effects of sodium chlorite treatment 234
Minoru Yada, Hiroyuki Shintani, Gyosuke Meshitsuka
Infrared spectroscopic study of alkaline oxygen treatment of lignin with ATR technique in aqueous state I: method for determining quantitative spectra of oxygen degraded lignin 239
Kaori Saito, Kazuhiko Fukushima
Distribution of lignin inter-unit bonds in the differentiating xylem of compression and normal woods of Pinus thunbergii 246
Hikaru Aimi, Yuji Matsumoto, Gyosuke Meshitsuka
Lignin fragments rich in detached side-chain structures found in water-soluble LCC 252
Katsunobu Ehara, Daishi Takada, Shiro Saka
GC-MS and IR spectroscopic analyses of the lignin-derived products from softwood and hardwood treated in supercritical water 256
Shohei Kaneko, Katsuhiko Yoshitake, Shuji Itakura, Hiromi Tanaka, Akio Enoki
Relationship between production of hydroxyl radicals and degradation of wood, crystalline cellulose, and a lignin-related compound or accumulation of oxalic acid in cultures of brown-rot fungi 262
Notes
Jakub Sandak, Chiaki Tanaka
Evaluation of surface smoothness using a light-sectioning shadow scanner 270
Yuko Fujiwara, Yoshihisa Fujii, Shogo Okumura
Relationship between roughness parameters based on material ratio curve and tactile roughness for sanded surface of two hardwoods 274
Takeshi Ohuchi, Yasuhide Murase
Milling of wood and wood-based materials with a computerized numerically controlled router IV: development of automatic measurement system for cutting edge profile of throw-away type straight bit 278
Masaki Harada, Youko Hayashi, Tomoyuki Hayashi, Masahiko Karube, Toshimasa Ohgama
Effect of moisture content of members on mechanical properties of timber joints 286
Yingcheng Hu, Tetsuya Nakao, Takahisa Nakai, Jiyou Gu, Fenghu Wang
Effects of grain angles of face veneer on surface wave velocities and dynamic shear moduli of wood-based composites 290
Nam-Hun Kim
An investigation of mercerization in decayed oak wood by a white rot fungus (Lentinula edodes) 290
Tadashi Ishii, Hiroshi Ono, Ikuko Maeda
Assignment of the 1H and 13C NMR spectra of 2-aminobenzamide labeled galacto-and arabinooligosaccharides 295
Hikaru Aimi, Yuji Matsumoto, Gyosuke Meshitsuka
Structure of small lignin fragments retained in water-soluble polysaccharides extracted from birch MWL isolation residue 303
Rapid communications
Levente Csoka, Jianjun Zhu, Katsuhiko Takata
Application of the Fourier analysis to determine the demarcation between juvenil/mature wood 309
Hitoshi Goto, Keiichi Koda, Guolin Tong, Yuji Matsumoto, Gyosuke Meshitsuka
Formation of methyl iodide from methoxyl-group-free compounds by hydriodic acid treatment 312
Announcement 316
Original articles
Miyuki Takeuchi, Keiji Takabe, Minoru Fujita
Immunolocalization of an anionic peroxidase in differentiating poplar xylem 317
Yoshihiro Hosoo, Masato Yoshida, Takanori Imai, Takashi Okuyama
The effect of day length on diurnal differences in the innermost surface of the S2 layer in differentiating tracheids 323
Junji Matsumura, Yoko Yamasaki, Kazuyuki Oda, Yoshitake Fujisawa
Profile of bordered pit aspiration in Cryptomeria japonica using confocal laser scanning microscopy: pit aspiration and heartwood color 328
Kentaro Abe, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Mechanical interaction between cellulose microfibril and matrix substance in wood cell wall, determined by X-ray diffraction 334
Anita Firmanti, Efendi Tri Bachtiar, Surjono Surjokusmo, Kohei Komatsu, Shuichi Kawai
Mechanical stress grading of tropical timbers without regard to species 339
Masahiko Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Asano, Mikio Kajiyama, Bunichiro Tomita
Effect of ozone treatment of wood on its liquefaction 348
Dongxiang Wang, Kyoko S. Katsumata, Gyosuke Meshitsuka
Characterization of lignin fragments in alkaline oxygen-stage waste liquor as soil-conditioning agent 357
Tadashi Oikawa, Toshiya Matsui, Yasunori Matsuda, Teruko Takayama, Hitoshi Niinuma, Yasuyo Nishida, Kazuo Hoshi, Mitsuyoshi Yatagai
Volatile organic compounds from wood and their influences on museum artifact materials I: differences in wood species and analyses of causal substances of deterioration 363
Nattaya Lourith, Takeshi Katayama, Toshisada Suzuki
Stereochemistry and biosynthesis of 8-O-4' neolignans in Eucommia ulmoides: diastereoselective formation of guaiacylglycerol-8-O-4' -(sinapyl alcohol) ether 370
Nattaya Lourith, Takeshi Katayama, Kimiko Ishikawa, Toshisada Suzuki
Biosynthesis of a syringyl 8-O-4' neolignan in Eucommia ulmoides: formation of syringylglycerol-8-O-4'(sinapyl alcohol) ether from sinapyl alcohol 379
Morten Eikenes, Gry Alfredsen, Bjorn Erik Christensen, Holger Militz, Halvor Solheim
Comparison of chitosans with different molecular weights as possible wood preservative 387
Eiji Minami, Shiro Saka
Decomposition behavior of woody biomass in water-added supercritical methanol 395
Notes
Jonas Blomberg
Elastic strain at semi-isostatic compression of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) 401
Oner Unsal, Nadir Ayrilmis
Variations in compression strength and surface roughness of heat-treated Turkish river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) wood 405
Hulya Kalaycioglu, Ilhan Deniz, Salim Hiziroglu
Some of the properties of particleboard made from paulownia 410
Jianying Xu, Ragil Widyorini, Shuichi Kawai
Properties of kenaf core binderless particleboard reinforced with kenaf bast fiber-woven sheets 415
Rapid communications
Shin-ichiro Tohmura, Kohta Miyamoto, Akio Inoue
Acetaldehyde emission from glued-laminated timber using phenol-resorcinol-formaldehyde resin adhesives with addition of ethanol 421
Zhenfu Jin, Yuji Matsumoto, Takeshi Tange, Takuya Akiyama, Masanobu Higuchi, Tadashi Ishii, Kenji Iiyama
Proof of the presence of guaiacyl-syringyl lignin in Selaginella tamariscina 424
Announcement 427
Review article
Ulrika Råberg, Marie-Louise Edlund, Nasko Terziev, Carl Johan Land
Testing and evaluation of natural durability of wood in above ground conditions in Europe: an overview 429
Original articles
Takahisa Nakai, Hisashi Abe, Takeshi Muramoto, Tetsuya Nakao
The relationship between sap flow rate and diurnal change of tangential strain on inner bark in Cryptomeria japonica saplings 441
Masato Yoshida, Daiji Fujiwara, Yukiko Tsuji, Kazuhiko Fukushima, Teruko Nakamura, Takashi Okuyama
Ultraviolet microspectrophotometric investigation of the distribution of lignin in Prunus jamasakura differentiated on a three-dimensional clinostat 448
Mats Ekevad
Twist of wood studs: dependence on spiral grain gradient 455
Yoichi Kojima, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Effect of moisture content on the longitudinal tensile creep behavior of wood 462
Laszlo Tolvaj, Katsuya Mitsui
Light source dependence of the photodegradation of wood 468
Song-Yung Wang, Feng-Cheng Chang, Far-Ching Lin
The amount of wooden material in the closed room and its effect on the reverberation time 474
Jorgen Lauritzen Jensen
Splitting strength of beams loaded perpendicular to grain by dowel joints 480
Tomoyuki Hayashi, Atsushi Miyatake, Fu Feng, Hideo Kato, Masahiko Karube, Masaki Harada
Outdoor exposure tests of structural laminated veneer lumber II: evaluation of the strength properties after nine years 486
Ashraf, M.A. Abdalla, Noboru Sekino
Veneer strand flanged I-beam with MDF or particleboard as web material III: effect of strand density and preparation method on the basic properties 492
Shigeru Yamauchi, Yasuo Iijima, Shuichi Doi
Spectrochemical characterization by FT-Raman spectroscopy of wood heat-treated at low temperatures: Japanese larch and beech 498
Tjasa Drnovšek, Anton Perdih, Marko Perdih
Fiber surface characteristics evaluated by principal component analysis 507
Yasutaka Watanabe, Rie Mihara, Tohru Mitsunaga, Tsuyoshi Yoshimura
Termite repellent sesquiterpenoids from Callitris glaucophylla heartwood 514
Enos Tangke Arung, Irawan Wijaya Kusuma, Yetti Mulyati Iskandar, Seiji Yasutake, Kuniyoshi Shimizu, Ryuichiro Kondo
Screening of Indonesian plants for tyrosinase inhibitory activity 520
Shuichi Doi, Masakazu Aoyama, Shigeru Yamauchi, Yasuji Kurimoto
Changes of decay and termite durabilities of Japanese larch (Larix leptolepis) wood due to high-temperature kiln drying processes 526
Yutaka Kataoka, Makoto Kiguchi, Takeshi Fujiwara, Philip D. Evans
The effects of within-species and between-species variation in wood density on the photodegradation depth profiles of sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) and hinoki (Chamaecyparis obtusa) 531
Notes
Takanori Imai, Masaki Nomura
Induction of the biosynthesis of agatharesinol, a norlignan, in sapwood sticks of Cryptomeria japonica under humidity-regulated circumstance 537
Yoko Okahisa, Tsuyoshi Yoshimura, Yuji Imamura
An application of the Alkaline extraction-glucoamylase hydrolysis method to analyze starch and sugar contents of bamboo 542
Announcement 546
Original articles
Hiroyuki Sugimoto, Ryosuke Takazawa, Misato Norimoto
Dielectric relaxation due to heterogeneous structure in moist wood 549
Hiroyuki Sugimoto, Misato Norimoto
Dielectric relaxation due to the heterogeneous structure of wood charcoal 554
Jorgen Lauritzen Jensen
Quasi-non-linear fracture mechanics analysis of the splitting failure of single dowel joints loaded perpendicular to grain 559
Jorgen Lauritzen Jensen
Quasi-non-linear fracture mechanics analysis of the double cantilever beam specimen 566
Vassilios Vassiliou, Ioannis Barboutis
Screw withdrawal capacity used in the eccentric joints of cabinet furniture connectors in particleboard and MDF 572
Jorgen Lauritzen Jensen
Quasi-non-linear fracture mechanics analysis of splitting failure in simply supported beams loaded perpendicular to grain by dowel joints 577
Jorgen Lauritzen Jensen
Quasi-non-linear fracture mechanics analysis of splitting failure in moment-resisting dowel joints 583
Yasumitsu Uraki, Junji Nemoto, Kuniyoshi Yanaga, Akio Koizumi, Takuro Hirai
Preparation of board-like moldings from composites of isolated lignins and waste paper II: effect of inorganic salts addition on board performance and evaluation of practical use of MDF 589
Yoriko Iwamoto, Takafumi Itoh
Vapor phase reaction of wood with maleic anhydride I: dimensional stability and durability of treated wood 595
Yoriko Iwamoto, Takafumi Itoh, Kazuya Minato
Vapor phase reaction of wood with maleic anhydride II: mechanism of dimensional stabilization 601
Takayuki Kobayashi, Hiroyasu Taguchi, Mikiji Shigematsu, Mitsuhiko Tanahashi
Substituent effects of 3,5-disubstituted p-coumaryl alcohols on their oxidation using horseradish peroxidase-H2O2 as the oxidant 607
Karen M. Barry, Rie Mihara, Noel W. Davies, Tohru Mitsunaga, Caroline L. Mohammed
Polyphenols in Acacia mangium and Acacia auriculiformis heartwood with reference to heart rot susceptibility 615
Jyh-Horng Wu, Min-Jay Chung, Shang-Tzen Chang
Green color protection of bamboo culms using one-step alkali-pretreatment-free process 622
Masakazu Hiraide, Ichiro Yokoyama, Yoshifumi Miyazaki
The smell and odorous components of dried shiitake mushroom, Lentinula edodes II: sensory evaluation by ordinary people 628
Dongxiang Wang, Kyoko S. Katsumata, Gyosuke Meshitsuka
Effect of low molecular weight lignin fragments including oxalic acid in alkaline-oxygen stage waste liquor on Al toxicity 634
Notes
Jun Jae Lee, Joo Saeng Park, Kwang Mo Kim, Jung Kwon Oh
Prediction of bending properties for structural glulam using optimized distributions of knot characteristics and laminar MOE 640
Ragil Widyorini, Jianying Xu, Kenji Umemura, Shuichi Kawai
Manufacture and properties of binderless particleboard from bagasse I: effects of raw material type, storage methods, and manufacturing process 648
Jonas Hafren
Antibody-based assay for galacturonan deesterification on wood pulp fibers during bleaching 655
Kazuya Minato, Tamaki Morita
Blackening of Diospyros genus xylem in connection with boron content 659
Announcement 663