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Innovation in Wood Preservation
- Source :
- Polymers, Volume 12, Issue 7, Polymers, Vol 12, Iss 1511, p 1511 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020.
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Abstract
- The wood preservation industry has depended on toxicity as a mechanism of effectiveness against decay fungi to extend the life of wood used in adverse conditions. An alternative to toxicity, however, is to study and understand the mechanism of fungal attack and stop it before it can start. Knowing that fungi need moisture for colonization, a new approach to wood preservation is to lower the cell wall moisture content below that needed for fungal attack. Acetylation chemistry is known to reduce the moisture content in the cell wall, and it was used to study moisture levels in the bulk cell wall and in the isolated cell wall polymers. Resistance to brown-rot was determined using a 12-week soil block test with Gloeophyllum trabeum. Weight loss was measured and an analysis of what was lost was determined.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Preservative
Polymers and Plastics
mechanism
01 natural sciences
Article
equilibrium moisture content
decay
Cell wall
lcsh:QD241-441
lcsh:Organic chemistry
010608 biotechnology
moisture
preservative
Water content
acetylation
040101 forestry
Fungal attack
biology
Moisture
Chemistry
Adverse conditions
sugar analysis
toxicity
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
General Chemistry
biology.organism_classification
Pulp and paper industry
Equilibrium moisture content
brown-rot fungus
acetyl content
Gloeophyllum trabeum
0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
weight loss
wood
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20734360
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Polymers
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d65083f24cb87f9d5abd68d217aa8ca8
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12071511