ABSTRACT
O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o efeito do material genético, clones e espécies, e da classe de diâmetro nas características de crescimento, composição química, densidade básica e a estimativa de massa seca de madeira. Foram avaliados quatro clones e cinco espécies, aos quatro anos de idade, de Eucalyptus procedentes da empresa RIMA Industrial S.A. Foram avaliadas cinco árvores por clone e espécie em três e quatro classes diamétricas, respectivamente. Avaliaram-se as características individuais de crescimento da árvore, a densidade básica, a estimativa de massa seca, o teor de lignina, extrativos totais, holocelulose e cinzas. O volume, com e sem casca, e a estimativa de massa seca apresentaram efeito significativo de material genético (clone e espécie) e classe diamétrica. O teor de lignina não foi influenciado significativamente pelo material genético e classe diamétrica. A densidade básica apresentou efeito significativo de classe diamétrica para os clones e de material genético para as espécies. O teste de identidade de modelos somente foi não significativo para a estimativa de massa seca para as espécies, possibilitando usar a equação comum independente da espécie. Os clones apresentaram madeira mais homogênea, com menor densidade básica, extrativos totais e lignina total e maior teor de holocelulose, características mais adequadas à produção de polpa celulósica. As espécies apresentaram madeira mais heterogênea, com maior densidade básica, estimativa de massa seca, extrativos totais e lignina total e menor teor de cinzas e holocelulose, características desejáveis à produção de bioenergia.
This research aimed to determine the basic density, the estimate of dry mass and the chemical composition of clones and Eucalyptus species. Four clones and five species of Eucalyptus were appraised, with four years old, coming from the RIMA Industrial Company S.A. Five trees were sampled for clone and species in three and four diametric classes, respectively. Wood characteristics as the basic density, the insoluble and soluble lignin in acid sulfuric, extractive total and ash content in the wood were available. The results showed that the volume, with or without bark, and estimated dry mass showed significant effects of genetic material (clone and species) and diameter class. The lignin content was not significantly influenced by both genetic material and diameter class. Wood basic density had a significant effect of diameter class for clones and genetic material for the species. The identity test for linear models was only not significant for estimated dry mass of the species, indicating to be possible to use the common equation independent of the species. The clones showed a more homogeneous wood with lower average basic density, extractives and total lignin content and higher holocellulose content, characteristics which are suitable for pulp production. The wood species showed more heterogeneous with highest average basic density, estimated dry weight, total lignin and extractives content and lower ash and holocellulose content, characteristics desirable for bioenergy production.
ABSTRACT
The utility of microsatellites (SSRs) in reconstructing phylogenies is largely confined to studies below the genus level, due to the potential of homoplasy resulting from allele size range constraints and poor SSR transferability among divergent taxa. The eucalypt genus Corymbia has been shown to be monophyletic using morphological characters, however, analyses of intergenic spacer sequences have resulted in contradictory hypotheses- showing the genus as either equivocal or paraphyletic. To assess SSR utility in higher order phylogeny in the family Myrtaceae, phylogenetic relationships of the bloodwood eucalypts Corymbia and related genera were investigated using eight polymorphic SSRs. Repeat size variation using the average square and Nei's distance were congruent and showed Corymbia to be a monophyletic group, supporting morphological characters and a recent combination of the internal and external transcribed spacers dataset. SSRs are selectively neutral and provide data at multiple genomic regions, thus may explain why SSRs retained informative phylogenetic signals despite deep divergences. We show that where the problems of size-range constraints, high mutation rates and size homoplasy are addressed, SSRs might resolve problematic phylogenies of taxa that have diverged for as long as three million generations or 30 million years.