The dark side of fungal competition and resource capture in wood: Zone line spalting from science to application

On wood surfaces and in planar section, zones lines appear as narrow and sharply delineated dark lines within wood visibly altered (“spalted”) by the decay process. In intact wood, zone lines define an irregular volume of decaying wood. They are primarily aggregations of melanised hyphae that enclos...

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Main Authors: Hugh Morris, Kevin T. Smith, Seri C. Robinson, Maximilian Göttelmann, Siegfried Fink, Francis W.M.R. Schwarze
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:Materials & Design
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127521000332