Cellulose degradation by cellulose-clearing and non-cellulose-clearing brown-rot fungi.
Cellulose degradation by four cellulose-clearing brown-rot fungi in the Coniophoraceae-Coniophora prasinoides, C. puteana, Leucogyrophana arizonica, and L. olivascens-is compared with that of a non-cellulose-clearing brown-rot fungus, Poria placenta. The cellulose- and the non-cellulose-clearing brown-rot fungi apparently employ similar mechanisms to depolymerize cellulose; most likely a nonenzymatic mechanism is involved.
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Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Madison, Wisconsin 53705.