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Chemical and structural characterization of the bark of Albizia niopoides trees from the Amazon

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The chemical composition and anatomy of Albizia niopoides bark from trees grown in a native forest area in the Amazon region, Brazil, were studied. The A. niopoides bark has a narrow rhytidome with thin phellem layers. Conspicuous structural elements are strands of axial parenchyma associated with fibres and large sclereid nodules. The mean chemical composition of A. niopoides bark was ash 5.5 %, total extractives 14.5 %, mainly corresponding to polar compounds that were soluble in ethanol and water, lignin 37.1 % and suberin 0.5 %. The polysaccharides composition showed a predominance of glucose and xylose (59.9 and 33.3 % of total monosaccharides, respectively). The ethanol–water bark extract had a high content in phenolics: total phenolics 247.15 mg gallic acid/g extract, flavonoids 59.08 mg catechin/g extract and tannins 149.98 mg catechin/g extract. The antioxidant activity corresponded to 839.05 mg Trolox per g of extract or 95.98 mg Trolox per g of bark. Albizia niopoides bark fractures easily with a predominance of larger particles over 2 mm (60.4 % of the total sample mass) and with little formation of fines (15 % of the total sample mass). Extractives were present preferentially in the finest fraction with enrichment in ethanol solubles. A potential valorization of A. niopoides bark based on the use of polar extractives and lignin was suggested.

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Acknowledgments

Jair Figueiredo do Carmo was supported by an Individual PhD Sandwich Scholarship (CAPES Proc. Nº 11692/2013-08) Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais e Florestais da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro-UFRRJ. This work is part of the activities at the Strategic Project (UID/AGR/00239/2013) of Centro de Estudos Florestais, a research unit supported by the national funding of FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Thanks are due to Alexandre Monteiro for help with the sampling and to Sofia Cardoso for help in the anatomical characterization.

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  1. Centro de Estudos Florestais, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017, Lisbon, Portugal

    Isabel Miranda, Teresa Quilhó, Vicelina B. Sousa & Helena Pereira

  2. Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Sinop, Mato Grosso, Brazil

    Jair F. Carmo & Fábio H. D. J. Carmo

  3. Departamento de Produtos Florestais, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    João V. F. Latorraca

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Carmo, J.F., Miranda, I., Quilhó, T. et al. Chemical and structural characterization of the bark of Albizia niopoides trees from the Amazon. Wood Sci Technol 50, 677–692 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00226-016-0807-3

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