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Wood decay of living trees, which has been explained by the CODIT (corapartmentalization of decay in trees - Shigo and Marx, 1977) model and/or the functional compartmentalization concept (Shigo, 1984), results in substantial losses of revenue to the United States each year. This decay is caused via a succession of micro-organisms (Shigo, 1967) but, in the main, by a group of wood-rotting fungi, the Hymenomycetes (Shigo and Sharon, 1968). The latter belong to the Basidiomycetes, a fungal Division in which fruiting bodies, basidiocarps, are produced. In this connection, fungi appear to be more significant than bacteria in the biodeterioration of wood (Henningsson, 1988).
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Dashek, W.V., Moore, N.L., Williams, A.C., Williams, A.L., O’Rear, C.E., Llewellyn, G.C. (1990). Wood Decay: A Review Including Recent Developments. In: Llewellyn, G.C., O’Rear, C.E. (eds) Biodeterioration Research. Biodeterioration Research, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9453-3_31
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