Improvement of Forest Resources for Recyclable Forest Products, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004

It is an honor and pleasure for me to write the foreword of this book comprising the of Forest Resources for proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on the Improvement Recyclable Forest Products. The symposium was organized by Dr. Toshihiro Ona, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan, as part of the "Development of Forest Resources with High Performance for Paper Recycling" research project. This was supported by the Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) team at the Japan Science and Technology Agency Foundation (lST) and by Kyushu University. As a colleague of Dr. Ona, I commend his efforts in organizing the symposium and editing this book. In the forest, there is a multitude of resources, including trees, herbal plants, fruits, fungi, mammals, birds, insects, fishes, reptiles, water, landscapes, and tourist attractions. Nowadays, even the environment is regarded as a kind of forest resource. These resources can provide a diversity of forest products, such as timber for buildings, pulp and paper, charcoal, herbal medicines, wild vegetables, animal protein, edible mushrooms, and nonwoody fibers. From these resources, major forest products are produced using various species of trees. For example, softwood is suitable as building material, while hardwood is suitable for furniture production; pulp and paper are produced from both softwood and hardwood. Therefore, forest locations and forest management methods should vary according to the tree species used for production of different forest products.

Preface.- Chapter 1 Tree Selection: Overview of the Project 'Development of Forest Resources with High Performance for Paper Recycling'; Near Infrared Spectroscopy: A Tool for the Rapid Estimation of Wood Properties; Forest Diversity and Pulp Quality: Some Tools for Wooden Raw Material Strategies for the Pulp and Paper Industry; Feasibility Study of Tree Selection for High Pulp Yield, Brightness and Recyclable Chemithermomechanical Paper Production Using Eucalyptus globulus; Toward the Construction of Efficient Link Between Forest Recycling and Paper Recycling Using Trees with High Performance for Paper Recycling.- Chapter 2 Pulp and Paper Recycling: Chemical Aspects of Photo-Yellowing of High-yield Pulps; Production of High Brightness CTMP from Eucalyptus globulus and Their Light-Induced Color Reversion; Characterization of Photo-Yellowing Trigger Compounds Repressing Paper Recyclability of Eucalyptus globulus by Pyrolysis-GC/MS; Fiber Properties and Papermaking Potential of Recycled Acacia Pulp; The Impact of Chemical Composition of Pulp Fiber Cell Wall on Paper Recycling Potential of Fibers; Limitation of Fiber Fractionation-Refining Process to Improve Paper Strength Using Recycled OCC Pulp; Refining to What Extent Could Contribute to Restoring the Strength Properties of OCC Pulp.- Chapter 3 Anatomical Aspects: Formation and Structure of Reaction Wood Fibers Forming No G-Layer in Some Hardwood Species; Radial Variation of Cell Morphology in Three Acacia Species; Within-Tree Variation of Detailed Fiber Morphology and Its Position Representing the Whole-Tree Value in Eucalyptus camaldulensis and E. globulus; Within-Tree Variation of Vessel Morphology and Frequency and Representative Heights for Estimating the Whole-Tree Values in Eucalyptus camaldulensis and E. globulus; Representative Heights Assessing Whole-Tree Values and the Within-Tree Variations of Derived Wood Properties in Eucalyptus camaldulensis and E. globulus; Rapid Assessment of Vessel Morphology byPyrolysis-gas Chromatography; Assessment of Vessel Anatomical Feature in Eucalyptus camaldulensis by Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography.- Chapter 4 Chemical Aspects: Rapid Characterization of Total Fatty Acids in Wood by Reactive Thermal Desorption-Gas Chromatography with Tetrabutylammonium Hydroxide; Effect of Deuterium Exchange in Lignin on Its Structural Analysis Using FT-Raman Spectroscopy; Direct Analysis of Condensed Tannins in Bark by Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry Combined with Solid Sample Preparation; Tannin and Related Polyphenolic Components from Tropical Tree Spcies; Characterization of Natural Resin Shellac by Reactive Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography; Conversion Pattern of Lignocellulosics in the Phase-Separation System.- Chapter 5 Physical Aspects: An Essay on the Fine Structure of the Wood Cell Wall Related to the Physical Properties of the Recycled Paper; Wood Qualities of Some Tropical Plantation Species - Does Hastening the Growth Debase the Quality? -; Research on Efficient Use of Forest Products - Engineering Evaluation of Good Tactile Warmth for Wood -.- Chapter 6 Biochemical Aspects: Possible Effects of Properties in Polyphenol Oxidases on Rooting Ability of Eucalyptus camaldulensis Cutting Shoots; Stable Isotope Tracer Experiments Give Strong Evidence Supporting a Controversial Pathway in Lignin Biosynthesis; Characterization of Potassium Channel from Arabidopsis thaliana; A New Combination Device Comprised of Surface Plasmon Resonance and Fluorescence Microscopy for a Rapid Screening of Anticancer Phenolic Compounds; The Feasibility of a Biotest Battery Applicability to Construct an Early Warning System for Leachate from Solid Wastes and Recycled Materials.- List of Authors.