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Application of FT-NIR in poplar chemical analysis

Genetic analysis of wood chemical composition is limited by the cost and throughput of direct analytical methods. Indirect methods such as Fourier transform near infrared (FT-NIR) offer an alternative for rapid, low cost method. In FT-NIR, calibration models and their predictions are typically developed and validated from small sample sets. These models are subsequently used to estimate wood chemical composition from larger sets of new samples (e.g., Sykes et al., 2006. Ann. For. Sci. 63, 897-904). However, no direct comparison of direct and indirect estimates of wood chemical composition and the genetic parameter estimates have been reported for the same population. Here we compare for a single poplar family genetic parameter estimates obtained for wood chemical composition with data from pyrolysis molecular beam mass spectrometry (pyMBMS) and FT-NIR.


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Author(s): Jinanxing Zhang