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JOURNAL OF WOOD SCIENCE
Volume 59, Issue 4, Pages 344-350Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s10086-013-1340-8
Keywords
Wood vinegar; Vitex pubescens; Antifungal activity; Antitermite activity
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- Directorate for Higher Education (DIKTI)
- Directorate for Higher Education (DIKTI), Ministry of National Education, Indonesia
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Antifungal and antitermitic activities of wood vinegar produced from Vitex pubescens were evaluated. Three kinds of wood vinegar were produced at three different pyrolysis temperatures, i.e. at 350, 400 and 450 A degrees C. A PDA dilution method was employed to assay antifungal activity of the vinegars with a white-rot fungus Trametes versicolor and a brown-rot fungus Fomitopsis palustris. Termiticidal activity and repellent effect were evaluated by a no-choice test and a choice test with Reticulitermes speratus and Coptotermes formosanus. All wood vinegars exhibited antifungal activity against both fungi. Wood vinegar of 450 A degrees C had the higher activity than those of 400 and 350 A degrees C. It was assumed that acid component contributed to the increase in controlling the growth of fungal. The wood vinegar exhibited antitermite activity to both R. speratus and C. formosanus workers in the no-choice experiment. However, it needed relatively high concentration to obtain the perfect mortality. For instance, the wood vinegar of 10 % concentration was needed to achieve 100 % mortality against C. formosanus, whereas for R. speratus only 3 % of wood vinegar was required. In the direct-choice experiment, wood vinegar had a significantly repellent effect to both termites at the lowest treating concentration of 10 %.
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