Canadian Forest Service Publications
Inhibition of growth of blue stain fungi by wood extractives. 1968. Shrimpton, D.M.; Whitney, H.S. Canadian Journal of Botany 46(6): 757-761.
Year: 1968
Issued by: Northern Forestry Centre
Catalog ID: 30256
Language: English
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Abstract
Resistance by lodgepole pine to invasion by blue stain fungi is effected by an initial flow of oleoresin followed by a gradual impregnation with resinous substances of the tissues adjacent to the wound. The addition of such resinous sapwood to growth media caused inhibition of growth whereas non-resinous sapwood enhanced growth; however, extracts from both resinous and nonresinous sapwood caused inhibition of blue stain fungi. Volatile components in the extracts were responsible for this inhibition.