“…Despite several studies that analysed the degradation potential of Pleurotus species (Camarero, Galletti, & Martínez, 1994;Gutiérrez, Bocchini, Galletti, & Martinez, 1996;Martinez, Camarero, Gutiérrez, Bochini, & Galleti, 2001;Martínez et al, 1994Martínez et al, , 2005, a selective wood delignification pattern has been predominantly reported to date. More recently, our work Bari, Nazarnezhad, et al, 2015;Bari, Taghiyari, et al, 2015;Bari et al, 2016) has demonstrated that the white-rot fungus Pleurotus ostreatus causes both selective and simultaneous delignification in beech wood in vitro. However, information about the behaviour of this fungus in vivo is largely lacking.…”