Surface Area of Wood Influences the Effects of Fungal Interspecific Interaction on Wood Decomposition-A Case Study Based on Pinus densiflora and Selected White Rot Fungi.

ABSTRACT: Wood decomposer basidiomycetes are the major agents of lignocellulose decomposition in dead wood. As their interspecific interaction affects wood decomposition, difference in interaction area may alter the magnitude of the effects. This study examines the effects of wood surface area on decomposition by interacting basidiomycetes using laboratory incubation experiments with pine sapwood as a model. Two types of pine wood blocks with equal volume but identical surface area were prepared for colonization by one of four white rot basidiomycete species. The colonized wood blocks were then placed on agar media already colonized by the same strain or one of the other species, simulating fungal monoculture and interspecific interactions on wood surface. Results demonstrated that the decay rate of

SUBMITTER: Fukasawa Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9145481 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature