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Callum A.S. Hill, Michael D. Hale, Graham A. Ormondroyd, Jin H. Kwon, Simon C. Forster

Decay resistance of anhydride-modified Corsican pine sapwood exposed to the brown rot fungus Coniophora puteana

Keywords: acetylation, Coniophora puteana, decay protection threshold, decay resistance, hexanoylation, hydroxyl substitution

Corsican pine (Pinus nigra) sapwood was chemically modified with acetic or hexanoic anhydride to a variety of weight gains. The modified wood was exposed to the brown rot fungus Coniophora puteana, and the relationship between weight loss due to decay and weight percentage gain, or degree of hydroxyl substitution, was determined in a 16-week exposure test. The effect of exposure time and the strain of C. puteana upon the decay protection threshold of acetylated Corsican pine was also examined.

Holzforschung, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0018-3830
Volume: 60, 11/2006
Pages: 625 - 629

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