Decay Resistance of Wood Removed from Poles Biologically Treated with<i>Trichoderma</i>

Abstract

Soil block ter mapping of microbial inhabitants. The results indicate that material from pole interiors colonized by Trichoderma is able to resist decay by Lentinus lepideus and Antrodia carbonica. Any decay prevention Southern yellow pine Trichoderma was lost however when the wood was steam sterilized prior to exposure to the basidiomycetes. The implications of the results for the usc of biological control of internal decay in creosoted poles are discussed.