Oil in Water Nanoemulsions Loaded with Tebuconazole for Populus Wood Protection against White- and Brown-Rot Fungi

Eugenol in water nanoemulsions loaded with tebuconazole appear as a very promising alternative formulations for wood protection against xylophagous fungi that are the main species responsible different rots structures. The dispersions prepared and upon dilution (impregnation mixtures) were characterized by apparent hydrodynamic diameter distribution of oil droplets their long-term stability. impregnation mixtures applied on Populus canadensis I-214 clone using pressure-vacuum system, effectiveness fungal degradation Gloeophyllum sepiarium Pycnoporus sanguineus was determined. retention about 40% amount contained mixtures. results showed process leads to antifungal wood, mass loss after 16 weeks being reduced more than 10 times relation control (untreated poplar wood) reference beech wood).