Innovation in Wood Preservation.
acetyl content
acetylation
brown-rot fungus
decay
equilibrium moisture content
mechanism
moisture
preservative
sugar analysis
toxicity
weight loss
wood
Journal
Polymers
ISSN: 2073-4360
Titre abrégé: Polymers (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101545357
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 Jul 2020
07 Jul 2020
Historique:
received:
20
05
2020
revised:
03
07
2020
accepted:
06
07
2020
entrez:
11
7
2020
pubmed:
11
7
2020
medline:
11
7
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
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
Identifiants
pubmed: 32646053
pii: polym12071511
doi: 10.3390/polym12071511
pmc: PMC7407373
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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