Wood mycolysis, it’s products and their use. III. Physiology and biochemistry of wood mycolysis

Abstract

This article is the third in the series «Mycolysis of wood, its products and their use», the first and second are published in the journal «Forestry Bulletin» Volume 24, 2020, No. 2 and No. 4. The article is devoted to the physiology of wood mykolysis under the influence of exoenzymatic systems of wood-destroying fungi. The processes of formation of «brown», «white» and «mottled rot» against the background of biochemical processes of destruction of the components of the ligno-carbohydrate complex of wood matter are considered. The changes in the microstructure and chemical composition of wood during mycolysis and their influence on the physicochemical properties of mycologically destroyed wood are analyzed.