Indoor wood-decay basidiomycetes: damage, causal fungi, physiology, identification and characterization, prevention and control

Control of growth of wood decay Basidiomycetes by Trichoderma spp. and other potentially antagonistic fungi

Isolates of Trichoderma, Penicillium, and Aspergillus were tested against Trametes versicolor and Neolentinus lepideus by agar interaction tests and by measuring the toxicity of culture filtrates. Some isolates were able to overgrow and kill both of the decay fungi in agar culture but others were totally ineffective. Although the filtrate from most isolates produced some growth inhibition of th...

Inhibition of Cellulases of Wood - Decay Fungi

Comparison of general fungal and basidiomycete-specific ITS primers for identification of wood decay fungi

The identity of the fungi associated with and responsible for wood decay could lead to the development of more environmentally benign wood preservative systems. In this study we have reconstructed the phylogenetic tree of a select group of basidiomycete fungi using nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region. We then compared this to trees generated from restriction fra...

Five New Wood Decay Fungi (Polyporales and Hymenochaetales) in Korea

The wood decay fungi are a diverse taxonomic group that plays a pivotal role in forest carbon cycling. Wood decay fungi use various enzymatic pathways to digest dead or living wood in order to obtain carbon and other nutrients and these enzymatic systems have been exploited for both industrial and medical applications. Over 600 wood decay fungi species have been described in Korea; however, the...

Integrated control of wood destroying basidiomycetes combining Cu-based wood preservatives and Trichoderma spp.

The production of new generation of wood preservatives (without addition of a co-biocide) in combination with an exchange of wood poles on identical sites with high fungal inoculum, has resulted in an increase of premature failures of wood utility poles in the last decades. Wood destroying basidiomycetes inhabiting sites where poles have been installed, have developed resistance against wood pr...