Seminar on tree water and carbon relations

Joint research seminar between LUKE and the Department of Forest Sciences.

Date: Monday 6th March

Time: 1200-1400

Location: Viikki B building, lecture room 7 (Latokartanonkaari 9)

Program:

Harri Mäkinen (LUKE)

Environmental control of growth variation in Norway spruce and Scots pine in Finland

Katsushi Kuroda (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan)

Cryo techniques for the trees to analyze water and chemical distributions at a cellular level

Lauri Lindfors (HY)

Low water potential in trees

Tuula Jyske (LUKE)

Seasonal variation in phloem formation and nonstructural carbohydrate and extractive

content in Picea abies as studied by novel microtechniques


Azuma Wakana (Kobe University, Kobe, Japan)

Function and structure of leaves contributing to increasing water storage with height in the

tallest Cryptomeria japonica trees of Japan

Anna Lintunen (HY)

Belowground hydraulic conductance in mature Scots pine trees

Organisers: Tuula Jyske (LuKe), Anna Lintunen (HY) & Teemu Hölttä (HY)