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THE ability of living trees to resist attack by common fungi which destroy dead branches and lumber from these same trees seems to be in need of explanation. This problem is made more interesting by the fact that some wood-destroying fungi, such as Schizophyllum commune Fries, are in general unable to cause serious trouble even in wounded living trees.
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McDONOUGH, E., BELL, L. & ARNOLD, G. A Water-Labile Fungistatic Extractive characterizing Living Trees. Nature 166, 1034 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/1661034a0
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