Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society
Table 2 Average of lignin content rates and lignin decrease rates (LDRs) of 5 wood species after twelve week decay tests
From: Wood decaying properties of the termite mushroom Termitomyces eurrhizus
| Â | Lignin | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
P. densiflora | C. japonica | C. obtusa | ||||||||||||||||
Heart wood | Sap wood | Heart wood | Sap wood | Heart wood | Sap wood | |||||||||||||
Content (%) | LDR (%) | SD | Content (%) | LDR (%) | SD | Content (%) | LDR (%) | SD | Content (%) | LDR (%) | SD | Content (%) | LDR (%) | SD | Content (%) | LDR (%) | SD | |
Sound wood | 27.0 | Â | Â | 26.7 | Â | Â | 33.9 | Â | Â | 31.1 | Â | Â | 26.4 | Â | Â | 28.9 | Â | Â |
 T3 | 29.3 | 0.6 | 3.2a | 27.9 | 3.2 | 0.5a | 35.9 | -4.9 | 6.3a | 31.2 | 0.8 | 3.7a | 32.1 | −11.6 | 3.3ab | 31.8 | −1.2 | 1.1a |
 T11 | 29.4 | −1.0 | 2.1a | 28.6 | −1.1 | 3.6a | 33.6 | 2.4 | 2.4a | 31.2 | 3.9 | 2.2a | 31.6 | −9.9 | 3.6b | 31.5 | −1.2 | 1.8a |
 T26 | 29.3 | 1.1 | 5.4a | 28.9 | 0.2 | 5.0a | 35.0 | 1.5 | 11.2a | 34.2 | −0.5 | 7.1a | 30.4 | −3.1 | 1.7b | 31.7 | 1.5 | 0.2a |
T. versicolor | 28.6 | 4.2 | 5.3a | 28.9 | 0.5 | 1.6a | 32.1 | 6.9 | 12.2a | 28.8 | 10.3 | 1.2a | 29.8 | −22.8 | 8.3a | 29.1 | 3.5 | 3.5a |
F. palustris | 34.1 | −4.9 | 9.3a | 30.4 | −4.7 | 6.4a | 44.0 | −7.4 | 8.0a | 40.3 | 6.5 | 35.6a | 32.5 | −10.1 | 1.4b | 35.1 | 4.9 | 8.5a |
| Â | Lignin | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
F. crenata | Q. miyagii | |||||||||||
Heart wood | Sap wood | Heart wood | Sap wood | |||||||||
Content (%) | LDR (%) | SD | Content (%) | LDR (%) | SD | Content (%) | LDR (%) | SD | Content (%) | LDR (%) | SD | |
Sound wood | 27.7 | Â | Â | 28.1 | Â | Â | 28.6 | Â | Â | 25.7 | Â | Â |
 T3 | 27.8 | 3.9 | 7.5b | 27.1 | 7.6 | 4.8b | 29.7 | −3.1 | 2.9a | 26.4 | −1.1 | 8.4a |
 T11 | 27.5 | 1.7 | 0.5b | 27.5 | 2.8 | 3.5b | 30.4 | −4.8 | 3.5a | 27.1 | −3.3 | 4.1a |
 T26 | 25.3 | 12.2 | 3.9b | 27.0 | 8.5 | 4.1b | 30.2 | −4.1 | 3.0a | 26.7 | −0.8 | 2.0a |
T. versicolor | 23.3 | 31.9 | 4.6a | 21.3 | 45.8 | 13.6a | 28.8 | −0.6 | 3.6a | 23.5 | 12.3 | 8.6a |
F. palustris | 29.9 | 6.8 | 4.8b | 36.2 | 14.3 | 5.8b | 30.3 | −1.9 | 6.9a | 27.8 | 6.7 | 2.0a |