Succession of Decay and Stain Fungi in Stored Conifer Pulpwood Logs in Kenya

Abstract

This study has established perhaps for the first time that the lower fungi belonging mainly to the hyphomycetes also play a significant role in the decay and stain defect in stored logs in both pinus patula and p. radiata colonization by trichodema sp. was most rapid causing a decline in the intial visible colonisation by stereum senguinolentum . the phenomenon of this rapid succession of these two fungi is discussed. it was also observed that cupresus jusitenica was remarkably resistant to such decay and stain organisms.