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Both decay and disease of trees are of great economic importance to the commercial wood products industry. Certain micro-organisms such as the white-rot fungi can literally live upon wood via their abilities to secrete cellulolytic and ligninolytic enzymes (Highley and Kirk, 1979). The capacity of white-rot fungi to degrade lignin involves in part their elaboration of an extra-cellular polyphenol oxidase (Agrios,.1978; Highley and Kirk, 1979; Nobles, 1958, 1965).
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Taylor, R. et al. (1989). In Vitro Growth of Coriolus Versicolor, a Wood-Decay Fungus, Responds Differentially to Catechol and Tannic Acid. In: O’Rear, C.E., Llewellyn, G.C. (eds) Biodeterioration Research 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5670-7_39
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