Proceedings of a Workshop on the Biodeterioration of Tropical Woods: Chemical Basis for Natural Resistance Held at Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. on October 17-18, 1974 PDF Download

Author: John D. Bultman
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Languages : en
Pages : 102

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;Contents: Research at the Naval Research Laboratory on Bioresistant tropical woods: An Overview; Biocides from Marine borer resistant timbers; Dalbergia polyphenols and shell formation in mollusks: Preliminary results; Search for a 'Weak Link'; The performance of Dalbergia wood and Delbergia Extractives impregnated into pine and exposed in a water cooling tower; Inhibition of fungal growth and reproduction by obtusaquinone and some cinnamylphenols; Resistance of tropical woods to subterranean termites; Responses of the Formosan Subterranean Termite to tropical wood extracts; Field evaluation of natural wood extractives and some related compounds as antiborer agents; Comments on Melanin and polyphenoloxidase inhibitors.