when the wood sample is then stained with ... "In general, we found more blue rings in trees than in shrubs. Shrubs seem to be more adapted to cooling events than trees, which is probably why shrubs ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...

Scientists have discovered that peculiar "blue rings" in wood samples reveal the aftermath ... A close-up of a young green pine tree (main) and an image of a volcanic eruption (inset).

creating ‘blue rings’ that appear when wood samples are dyed. Since trees and shrubs can live for hundreds of years, identifying these blue rings allows us to spot cold summers in the past. By looking ...

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The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines has been decoded in a University of British Columbia study. Also known as blue stain fungus for the stain it ...

Taken from a tree ... blue when the wood is sampled and stained. Since trees and shrubs live long lives, some as many as thousands of years, scientists can pinpoint the past’s chilliest summers by ...

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creating ‘blue rings’ that appear when wood samples are dyed. Since trees and shrubs can live for hundreds of years, identifying these blue rings allows us to spot cold summers in the past. By looking ...

The researchers, who published the study in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science, found that the blue rings pointed to extreme cooling during the summers of 1902 and 1877, directly coinciding with ...