Bacteria as important degraders in waterlogged archaeological woods

Holzforschung

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 389-392

  Kim, Yoon Soo ^a   Singh, Adya P ^b   Nilsson, Thomas ^c  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b SCION   (New Zealand)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Archaeological woods; Electron microscopy; Erosion bacteria; Soft rot fungi; Tunneling bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; FUNGI;

ANCIENT WOOD; AQUEOUS MEDIUM; ARCHAEOLOGY; HARDWOOD; SOFTWOOD;

WOOD;

EID: 0030356255     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hfsg.1996.50.5.389     Document Type: Article

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