Genetic Variation in the Decay Resistance of Siberian Larch (Larix sibirica Ledeb.) Wood

Holzforschung ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. VenälÄinen ◽  
A.M. Harju ◽  
T. Nikkanen ◽  
L. Paajanen ◽  
P. Velling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Siberian Larch ◽  
Brown Rot ◽  
Seed Orchard ◽  
Decay Resistance ◽  
Larix Sibirica ◽  
Growth Characteristics ◽  
Genetic Determination ◽  
Increment Core ◽  
Modified Method ◽  
Decay Test

Summary The aim of the study was to estimate the degree of genetic determination in the decay resistance of Siberian larch (Larix sibirica Ledeb.) wood and its correlation to other wood traits. The wood samples were taken from 25-year-old grafted seed orchard clones with an increment core borer, dried, weighed, and subjected to a laboratory decay test using a modified method based on the standardised EN 113 method. One brown rot fungus, Coniophora puteana (Schum. ex Fr.) Karst., was used as the decaying organism. The advantages of the method were the savings in time, the possibility to study standing trees, and the potential for screening large numbers of samples at reasonable costs. The clonal repeatability was used to estimate the degree of genetic determination. The genetic determination appeared to be stronger for decay resistance than for growth characteristics or heartwood formation, but weaker than for wood density or latewood formation. Decay resistance and the growth characteristics did not correlate.

Decay resistance, extractive content, and water sorption capacity of Siberian larch (Larix sibirica Lebed.) heartwood timber

Holzforschung ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martti Venäläinen ◽  
Anni M. Harju ◽  
Nasko Terziev ◽  
Tapio Laakso ◽  
Pekka Saranpää
Keyword(s):  
Siberian Larch ◽  
Brown Rot ◽  
Decay Resistance ◽  
Extractive Content ◽  
Strong Negative Correlation ◽  
Average Mass ◽  
Brown Rot Fungi ◽  
Hygroscopic Properties ◽  
Decay Test

Abstract The aim of this study was to find chemical or physical properties of Siberian larch heartwood timber that correlate with the variation in decay resistance. Juvenile heartwood from 24-year-old grafts of 15 clones was exposed to three brown-rot fungi according to the standard in vitro decay test (European standard EN 113). The mass losses caused by the brown rot fungi Coniophora puteana, Poria placenta, and Gloeophyllum trabeum were 20%, 28% and 17% of the dry mass, respectively. The average mass loss over the three fungi had a strong negative correlation with the concentration of taxifolin (r=–0.673, P=0.006), as well as with the concentration of total phenolics determined by the Folin-Ciocalteu assay (r=–0.677, P=0.006). Thus, the concentration of flavonoids is a promising property for indirect measurement of the decay resistance of Siberian larch timber. The most abundant heartwood extractives, arabinogalactans, had a non-significant relationship with the decay resistance, but their concentration correlated positively with the capacity of the wood to adsorb water (r=0.736, P=0.002). The hygroscopic properties of the wood or the wood density were not associated with the decay resistance.

Genetic variation in the decay resistance of Scots pine wood against brown rot fungus

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 1244-1249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anni M Harju ◽  
Martti Venäläinen ◽  
Egbert Beuker ◽  
Pirkko Velling ◽  
Hannu Viitanen
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Mass Loss ◽  
Scots Pine ◽  
Brown Rot ◽  
Decay Resistance ◽  
Phenotypic Variance ◽  
Increment Core ◽  
Genetic Components ◽  
Brown Rot Fungus ◽  
The Mean

The role of genotype in the durability of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) wood against decay by brown rot fungus (Coniophora puteana (Schum. ex Fr.) Karst. (strain Bam EBW 15)) was studied in a laboratory test. The wood material was obtained from 32-year-old half-sib progenies of Scots pine. The increment core samples of sapwood and juvenile heartwood were decayed using a modification of the standardized EN 113 method. The mean densities of the sapwood and heartwood samples were 391 and 337 mg·cm–3, respectively, and the mean mass losses were 114 and 80 mg·cm–3, respectively. The additive genetic components were small compared with the total phenotypic variance, which resulted in small narrow-sense heritabilities in mass loss. The most marked feature was the wide phenotypic variation in mass loss observed in heartwood (range 199 mg·cm–3) compared with sapwood (range 72 mg·cm–3) samples. Low heritability, together with the relatively high coefficient of additive genetic variation (CVA) in heartwood mass loss, suggests that advances in breeding can only be made through intensive testing in the environments which the studied experiment represents.

Natural resistance of eight Brazilian wood species from the region Caatinga determined by an accelerated laboratory decay test against four fungi

Holzforschung ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo F. da Silveira ◽  
Fernando N. Gouveia ◽  
Alessandro C.O. Moreira ◽  
José Roberto V. Oliveira ◽  
Anna Sofya V.S. Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wood Species ◽  
Brown Rot ◽  
Decay Resistance ◽  
Standard Test ◽  
Test Method ◽  
White Rot ◽  
Natural Resistance ◽  
Extractive Content ◽  
Pycnoporus Sanguineus ◽  
Decay Test

AbstractNatural resistance of eight wood species from Caatinga, an exclusive Brazilian biome, was evaluated according to [ASTM Standard (2005) D 2017-05. Standard test method of accelerated laboratory test of natural decay resistance of woods.]. Samples were exposed to white rot (WR) and brown rot (BR) fungi, namely toTrametes versicolor(WR),Pycnoporus sanguineus(WR), Gloeophyllum trabeum(BR) andGloeophyllum striatum(BR). Weight loss, specific gravity and extractive content of each wood species were evaluated.Diptychandra aurantiaca,Pterodon abruptusandTerminalia fagifoliawere classified as “highly resistant”, whileT. fagifoliawas “resistant” toT. versicoloronly.Machaerium acutifoliumwas resistant to all fungi.Aspidosperma multiflorumwas resistant to WR fungi andCombretum glaucocarpumto a BR fungus. The speciesPityrocarpa moniliformisandSwartzia psilonemawere moderately resistant.

Measuring the decay resistance of Scots pine heartwood indirectly by the Folin-Ciocalteu assay

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 1797-1804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anni M Harju ◽  
Martti Venäläinen
Keyword(s):  
Mass Loss ◽  
Scots Pine ◽  
Total Phenolics ◽  
Brown Rot ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Decay Resistance ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Decay Test ◽  
Decay Tests

To exploit the variation in the natural durability of heartwood timber, screening of a large number of trees or timber is necessary. We suggest that the concentration of total phenolics, measured by the Folin–Ciocalteu (FC) assay, can be used to supplement or even replace in vitro decay tests for screening the variation in the resistance of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) heartwood timber against the brown-rot fungus Coniophora puteana (Schum. ex Fr.). We screened the juvenile heartwood of 520 Scots pine trees with the FC assay. Samples from 40 trees, with total phenolics concentrations ranging from 1.9 to 21.7 mg tannic acid equivalents (TAE)/g of heartwood, were subjected to an in vitro decay test. The correlation (r) between the total phenolics concentration and mass loss was –0.82 (p < 0.001) in the 7 week long decay test. The relationship was expressed with a linear regression equation: mass loss (mg/g) = 487 – 25 × concentration of total phenolics (mg TAE/g). This strong relationship could be exploited by replacing the decay test with the FC assay to more rapidly assess the durability of wood products.

Estimate of annual carbon balance of a young Siberian larch (Larix sibirica) plantation in Iceland

Tellus B ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynhildur Bjarnadottir ◽  
Bjarni D. Sigurdsson ◽  
Anders Lindroth
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Balance ◽  
Siberian Larch ◽  
Larix Sibirica ◽  
Annual Carbon ◽  
Annual Carbon Balance

Study of the properties larch and larch wood construction materials

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
М.А. Чубинский ◽  
К.В. Чаузов
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Urea Formaldehyde ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Siberian Larch ◽  
Larix Sibirica ◽  
Average Weight ◽  
Biological Stability ◽  
Laminated Beam ◽  
Coniophora Puteana ◽  
Larch Wood

Несмотря на огромные запасы, древесина лиственницы до сего времени в незначительных объемах используется в строительной индустрии, других отраслях экономики, что связано как с технологическими сложностями ее переработки, так и недостаточной изученностью ее свойств. Одним из уникальных свойств древесины лиственницы сибирской (Larix sibirica) является ее повышенная естественная биостойкость, наряду с максимально высокой среди отечественных хвойных пород прочностью. Стойкость древесины лиственницы (Larix sibirica) к воздействию дереворазрушающих грибов Coniofora puteana значительно превышает стойкость сосны. В среднем потеря массы ядровой древесины лиственницы сибирской под воздействием дереворазрушающего гриба Coniophora puteana составляет 14,84%, снижаясь с увеличением возраста дерева, а контрольные образцы из ядровой древесины сосны в возрасте 90 лет имели потерю массы 57,8%. Возраст дерева является одним из наиболее значимых факторов, влияющих на степень биостойкости древесины. По мере его увеличения значительно повышается устойчивость деструктивному воздействию дереворазрушающих грибов Coniophora puteana. Положение образцов также влияет на степень биостойкости древесины, однако эта зависимость слабо выражена по сравнению с влиянием возраста и плотности древесины. Исследования кинетики разложения древесины лиственницы сибирской и роли экстрактивных веществ в развитии дереворазрушающих грибов позволяют утверждать наличие связи биостойкости и содержания в древесине экстрактивных веществ. Для изготовления клееного бруса из древесины лиственницы предложена клеевая композиция, включающая карбамидомеламиноформальдегидный клей и карбамидоформальдегидную смолу, модифицированную шунгитами. Ее применение позволяет получать клеевые соединения, не уступающие по прочности при скалывании массивной древесине, как по сухому образцу, так и после его вымачивания. Таким образом, клееный брус из древесины лиственницы сибирской характеризуется высокими показателями биостойкости, прочности и водостойкости. Despite vast reserves, larch wood so far in small volumes used in the construction industry and other sectors of the economy, which is connected as the technological difficulties of its treatment, as well as insufficient knowledge of its properties. One of the unique properties of the wood of Siberian larch (Larix sibirica) is its increased natural biological stability (decay resistant), along with the highest among the domestic softwood strength. Resistance Larch (Larix sibirica) to the effects of wood-destroying fungi Coniofora puteana is much higher than pine. The average weight loss of Siberian larch heartwood exposed wood-destroying fungi Coniophora puteana is 14.84%, decreasing with increasing age of the tree, and control samples of heartwood pine at age 90 had a weight loss of 57.8%. Age of a tree is one of the most significant factors affecting the degree of biological stability of wood. With the increase it significantly increases the stability of the destructive effects of wood-destroying fungi and Coniophora puteana. The position of the sample in tree also affects the degree of biological stability of wood, but this dependence is poorly developed in comparison with the influence of age and wood density. Studies of the kinetics of decomposition of Siberian larch wood and the role of extractives in the development of wood-destroying fungi suggest a link, and the decay resistant of the content in the wood extractives. For the manufacture of larch glued laminated beam proposed adhesive composition comprising urea and melamine-formaldehyde glue and urea-formaldehyde resins, modified shungites. Its use allows to obtain the bonds are not inferior in strength at shearing solid wood as dry sample, and after soaking. Thus, glued laminated beam from Siberian larch wood is characterized by high decay resistant, strength and water resistance.

scholarly journals Bending properties of dimension lumber produced from Siberian larch (Larix sibirica) in Mongolia

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bayasaa Tumenjargal ◽  
Futoshi Ishiguri ◽  
Yusuke Takahashi ◽  
Ikumi Nezu ◽  
Bayartsetseg Baasan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Siberian Larch ◽  
Larix Sibirica ◽  
Bending Properties ◽  
Dimension Lumber

Growth behavior of wood-destroying fungi in chemically modified wood: wood degradation and translocation of nitrogen compounds

Holzforschung ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas Emmerich ◽  
Maja Bleckmann ◽  
Sarah Strohbusch ◽  
Christian Brischke ◽  
Susanne Bollmus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protective Action ◽  
Treated Wood ◽  
Untreated Wood ◽  
Brown Rot ◽  
Decay Resistance ◽  
White Rot ◽  
Decay Fungi ◽  
Chemically Modified ◽  
Decay Tests ◽  
Modified Wood

Abstract Chemical wood modification has been used to modify wood and improve its decay resistance. However, the mode of protective action is still not fully understood. Occasionally, outdoor products made from chemically modified timber (CMT) show internal decay while their outer shell remains intact. Hence, it was hypothesized that wood decay fungi may grow through CMT without losing their capability to degrade non-modified wood. This study aimed at developing a laboratory test set-up to investigate (1) whether decay fungi grow through CMT and (2) retain their ability to degrade non-modified wood. Acetylated and 1,3-dimethylol-4,5-dihydroxyethyleneurea (DMDHEU) treated wood were used in decay tests with modified ‘mantle specimens’ and untreated ‘core dowels’. It became evident that white rot (Trametes versicolor), brown rot (Coniophora puteana) and soft rot fungi can grow through CMT without losing their ability to degrade untreated wood. Consequently, full volume impregnation of wood with the modifying agent is required to achieve complete protection of wooden products. In decay tests with DMDHEU treated specimens, significant amounts of apparently non-fixated DMDHEU were translocated from modified mantle specimens to untreated wood cores. A diffusion-driven transport of nitrogen and DMDHEU seemed to be responsible for mass translocation during decay testing.

Complexation of carboxyarabinogalactan of Siberian larch (Larix Sibirica L.) with Kanamycin

2010 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kh. Mudarisova ◽  
L. A. Badykova ◽  
E. I. Koptyaeva ◽  
A. A. Fatykhov ◽  
Yu. B. Monakov
Keyword(s):  
Siberian Larch ◽  
Larix Sibirica
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