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Oxalic acid production and metal removal during fungal degradation of CCA-treated wood in nutrient culture

  • Yong-Seok Choi , Jae-Jin Kim , Tsuyoshi Yoshimura and Gyu-Hyeok Kim EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: January 9, 2014
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The objective of this study was to evaluate characteristics of oxalic acid (OA) production and metal removal during degradation of CCA-treated wood in nutrient culture by brown-rot fungi. Two brown-rot fungi, Crustoderma sp. and Fomitopsis palustris extensively degraded the CCA-treated wood, causing mass losses (MLs) up to 49.0% and 43.5%, respectively, while these fungi produced OA during degradation up to 21.3 mg g-1 and 43.8 mg g-1, respectively. Antrodia vaillantii and Polyporales sp. produced OA up to 28.9 mg g-1 and 29.8 mg g-1, respectively, with <3% ML. Fomitopsis palustris with the highest OA production removed effectively 87.5% As and 86.0% Cr during degradation of the treated wood. Antrodia vaillantii and an unknown Polyporales sp. showed notable As removal rates of 90.3% and 88.9%, respectively, and 81.0–83.9% Cr removal. However, only moderate amounts of Cu (40.8%) were extracted by the fungi investigated. The conclusion is that OA production by brown-rot fungi can be partially associated with removal of Cr and As during fungal degradation of CCA-treated wood.


Corresponding author: Gyu-Hyeok Kim, Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, 5-1 Anam-Dong, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul 136-713, Korea, Phone: +82 2 3290 3014, Fax: +82 2 953 0737, e-mail:

This work was supported by a Korea Research Foundation Grant (KRF-2008-313-F00056), funded by the Korean Government and by a Forest Science and Technology Project (Project No. S121012L110100) provided by the Korea Forest Service of the Korean Government.

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Received: 2013-9-5
Accepted: 2013-12-3
Published Online: 2014-1-9
Published in Print: 2014-8-1

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