Estimation of effect of passage through the gut of a lower termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, on lignin by solid-state CP/MAS 13C NMR

Holzforschung

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 244-246

  Hyodo, Fujio ^a   Azuma, Jun Ichi ^a   Abe, Takuya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CELLULOSE; FUNGUS ATTACK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; TERMITE PROOFING;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; GUT SYMBIONTS;

LIGNIN;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; FUNGI; ISOPTERA; PINUS RESINOSA;

EID: 0032625712     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HF.1999.041     Document Type: Article

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