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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Houtman CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4959780 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Houtman Carl J CJ Kitin Peter P Houtman Jon C D JC Hammel Kenneth E KE Hunt Christopher G CG
PloS one 20160725 7
Colonization of wood blocks by brown and white rot fungi rapidly resulted in detectable wood oxidation, as shown by a reduced phloroglucinol response, a loss of autofluorescence, and acridine orange (AO) staining. This last approach is shown to provide a novel method for identifying wood oxidation. When lignin was mildly oxidized, the association between AO and lignin was reduced such that stained wood sections emitted less green light during fluorescence microscopy. This change was detectable a ...[more]