An introduction to a Virtual Issue on Wood Biology

This Virtual Issue ‘The biology of wood’, highlights the central role of wood biology in basic plant science, as well as critical ecological, environmental, economic and societal issues. Wood, or secondary xylem, is produced by the vascular cambium and plays myriad interacting roles in plant development, physiology and biochemistry. Wood is not simply the terminal product of secondary cell wall development in specialized cells, but is the tissue...