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

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Published/Copyright: December 4, 2006
Holzforschung
From the journal Volume 60 Issue 6

Abstract

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.

Keywords: acetylation; Coniophora puteana; decay protection threshold; decay resistance; hexanoylation; hydroxyl substitution
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Published Online: 2006-12-04
Published in Print: 2006-11-01

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  2. Subject Index
  3. Species index (scientific names)
  4. Acknowledgement
  5. Author index
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https://doi.org/10.1515/HF.2006.105
Keywords for this article
acetylation; Coniophora puteana; decay protection threshold; decay resistance; hexanoylation; hydroxyl substitution

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Contents
  2. Subject Index
  3. Species index (scientific names)
  4. Acknowledgement
  5. Author index
  6. Topochemical investigation on phenolic deposits in the vessels of afzelia (Afzelia spp.) and merbau (Intsia spp.) heartwood
  7. Topochemical investigations of wood extractives and their influence on colour changes in American black cherry (Prunus serotina Borkh.)
  8. Wound effects in the xylem of poplar: A UV microspectrophotometric study
  9. Application of scanning UV microspectrophotometry for the topochemical detection of lignin within individual cell walls of brown-rotted Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) sapwood
  10. Influence of overexpression of a gibberellin 20-oxidase gene on the kinetics of xylem cell development in hybrid poplar (Populus tremula L. and P. tremuloides Michx.)
  11. Morphological and chemical characterisation of the G-layer in tension wood fibres of Populus tremula and Betula verrucosa: Labelling with cellulose-binding module CBM1HjCel7A and fluorescence and FE-SEM microscopy
  12. Decay resistance of anhydride-modified Corsican pine sapwood exposed to the brown rot fungus Coniophora puteana
  13. Iron-reducing capacity of low-molecular-weight compounds produced in wood by fungi
  14. Analysis of the hyphal load during early stages of wood decay by basidiomycetes in the presence of the wood preservative fungicides CuSO4 and cyproconazole
  15. Prediction of natural durability of commercial available European and Siberian larch by near-infrared spectroscopy
  16. Retention of Bacillus cereus and its toxin, cereulide, in cellulosic fibres
  17. Chemical structure elucidation of total lignins in woods. Part II: Analysis of a fraction of residual wood left after MWL isolation and solubilized in lithium chloride/N,N-dimethylacetamide
  18. Amphiphilicity of a lignin-carbohydrate complex
  19. Spatial relationships between polymers in Sitka spruce: Proton spin-diffusion studies
  20. Phenolic compounds from bark of Suwon poplar (Populus alba L. and Populus glandulosa Uyeki)
  21. Extraction of iron compounds from wood from the Vasa
  22. High-consistency ozonation of hardwood kraft pulp
  23. Fibre surface and strength of a fibre network
  24. A numerical study of the effects of stresses induced by moisture gradients in steel-timber dowel joints
  25. Pilot investigation of the mechanical properties of wood flooring paint films by in situ imaging nanoindentation
  26. Obituary Walter G. Kauman (1923–2005)
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