Abstract
Abstract Scots pine sapwood (Pinus sylvestris L.) and European beech wood (Fagus sylvatica L.) were treated with glutaraldehyde (GA) in aqueous solution in the presence of magnesium chloride as a catalyst to evaluate the durability improvement towards staining and rot fungi. The GA modified specimens were dipped in a spore suspension of the blue stain fungus Aureobasidium pullulans and incubated for 8 weeks. The growth on both pine and beech wood was restrained, when the weight percent gain (WPG) of the specimens was above 7%. Under this condition, GA-modified beech wood did not suffer any mass loss after incubation with the white rot fungus Trametes versicolor. The threshold to prevent decay of beech and pine specimens towards the brown rot fungus Coniophora puteana was at a WPG of only 3%. GA treatment to a WPG over 6% protected the Scots pine stakes from soft rot decay during 32 weeks’ exposure according to ENv 807 (2001).
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