Zdolność do dekompozycji drewna wybranych gatunków grzybów powodujących rozkład typu brunatnego w warunkach ex situ

The paper describes the results of investigation on the range of trophic abilities and preferences of fungi causing the wood decay of the brown rot pattern. Fomitopsis pinicola, Laetiporus sulphureus, Piptoporus betulinus and Serpula lacrymans fungi were tested. Wooden samples made from wood of 25 different, both European and exotic, tree species were used. They were put on mycelium of every tested fungus. After 30, 60 and 90 days of exposition samples were weighted and the loss of their mass was calculated to compare the differences of wood destroying abilities between examined tree species. The results indicated that the range of trophic abilities in ex situ conditions of tested fungi species was much wider than in nature. All examined fungi were able to decay the wood of more tree species and their trophic preferences occurred to be different as well.