Objective
Forest product industry has an important role in the European economy due to efficient exploitation of raw material resources, employment and rural development. The use of wood as building, furniture and package material is based on its advantageous ecological, technical and aesthetical properties. Deterioration of wood is, however, caused by the action of microorganisms, causing both rotting and discolouration of wood products during production and service. The discolouration of timber by staining fungi is a severe problem resulting significant economical lossses. The discolouration can be prevented by using environmentally harmful chlorophenols. Targeted biological and novel clean technology chemical methods offer new types of techniques to protect wooden material against fungal deterioration. These methods could be applied either to prevent fungal growth and pigment formation or to decolour stains in wooden material. This European project aims to gathering high-level technical and scientifical expertise and industry working in the field of antisapstain products to elaborate novel solutions for the wood protection and remedial treatments against staining fungi. The main objectives of the project are to clarify the fundamental key factors affecting fungal colonization and pigment formation, and to exploit the biochemical data obtained designing new, targeted and environmentally safe biological and chemical prevention concepts. Economical and technical feasibility studies of novel clean technology treatments will be performed in order to evaluate the marketing potential.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology mycology
- social sciences economics and business business and management employment
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
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Finland
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