Chemical and microscopic features of wood decay by the basidiomycete Coriolopsis occidentalis are described. The fungus was grown on blocks of poplar, oak, and fir wood and caused significant mass, lignin, and saccharide losses in all kinds of wood. Poplar wood was particularly strongly affected. Twelve weeks after inoculation dry mass, lignin, and saccharide contents were reduced by about 50%. The blocks became covered with mycelia and electron microscopy showed that secondary cell walls were degraded from the lumina and middle lamellae dissolved during later stages of incubation. The results indicate that the fungus belongs to simultaneous white-rotters.
Streptomyces cinnamonensis produces a new substance named AIB (for anti-isobutyrate) factor which, on a solid medium, efficiently counteracts toxic concentrations not only of isobutyrate but also of other salts of short-chain monocarboxylic acids. In the present study we demonstrate that the AIB factor activity is widely spread because this effect was positively detected in 25 of 31 randomly chosen microorganisms (streptomycetes, ascomycetes, zygomycetes and basidiomycetes). The AIB factor produced by the tested microorganisms on an agar media allows for germination, growth, and sporulation of the testing Streptomyces coelicolor on an agar medium containing 20 mmol/L acetate, propionate, butyrate, isobutyrate, valerate, isovalerate, and 2-methylbutyrate. The activity of the AIB factor from different sources towards these substances differs.
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