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8<br />

Habitat of <strong>Wood</strong> Fungi<br />

Microbial damages to trees and wood can be differentiated into damage to the<br />

living tree, to felled and stored wood and in outside use, and to wood in indoor<br />

use.<br />

Such grouping is however rather for didactical reasons. There are many<br />

overlappings: For example Daedalea quercina is occasionally found as wound<br />

parasite on living oaks, frequently on stumps, more rarely on timber in outdoor<br />

use, like sleepers or bridge timber, and sometimes also on buildings (halftimbering<br />

and windows). Stereum sanguinolentum causes as well the “wound<br />

rot” of spruce trees (Butin 1995) as the red streaking of stored coniferous wood<br />

(v. Pechmann et al. 1967).<br />

8.1<br />

Fungal Damage to Living Trees<br />

This chapter belongs to the field of “forest pathology” and only gives an<br />

overview. For further reading see Tattar (1978), Schwerdtfeger (1981), Sinclair<br />

et al. (1987), Hartmann et al. (1988), Schönhar (1989), Butin (1995), Schwarze<br />

et al. (1997), and Nienhaus and Kiewnik (1998). Defense mechanisms of the<br />

trees are described by Blanchette and Biggs (1992) (also Chap. 8.2.1).<br />

The tree can be already damaged on its flowers, seeds, and seedlings by<br />

fungi that belong to the Oomycetes, Deuteromycetes, or Ascomycetes. Among<br />

the more frequently occurring fungi on flowers or inflorescences are host<br />

specific Taphrina species that affect alder catkins, or female flowers of poplar,<br />

and Thekopsora areolata damaging spruce inflorescence (Butin 1995).<br />

Seeds can be damaged by non-specific molds of the genera Alternaria,<br />

Fusarium, Penicillium,andTrichothecium. Among the specialists that can cause<br />

internal rotting of seeds are Rhizoctonia solani on beechnuts and Ciboria<br />

batschiana on acorns. Conedera et al. (2004) list several parasitic fungi that<br />

colonize chestnuts.<br />

Heat damage in seedlings is often followed by secondary infections by Alternaria,<br />

Fusarium, and Pestalotia species. Thelephora terrestris, Helicobasidium<br />

brebissonii, Rosellinia minor and R. aquila can smother seedlings or<br />

young plants. Seedling rots are among the most common diseases in the forest<br />

nursery. Important fungi on conifer seedlings are Phytium debaryanum, Phy-<br />

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