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A New Type of Wood Just Discovered Could Revolutionize Carbon Storage : ScienceAlert

A tree common in gardens for its pretty flowers and foliage has been harboring a secret this entire time.

At around the same time, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere quickly and dramatically decreased, which the researchers say may be related to the emergence of Liriodendron. (Katrin Ray Shumakov/Moment/Getty Images)Macrofibrils can be found within the secondary cell walls of woody plants, which are a key feature of their anatomy. ( Jan J Lyczakowski and Raymond Wightman)In addition to the discovery of a new kind of wood, the researchers found two gymnosperms of the Gnetum genus that have a secondary cell wall structure the same as woody angiosperms.

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