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Physical and chemical wood characteristics of healthy vs. suppressed Scots pine trees of Central Siberia

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This study was the first attempt to investigate pyrolysis of suppressed and healthy Scots pine (Pinus Sylvestris Ledeb.) wood growing in Central Siberia (the forest-steppe zone of Krasnoyarsk Region) using thermogravimetric analysis coupled with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (TG-FTIR). To describe the post-pyrolysis parameters of lignin and cellulose molecular structure, the method of pyrolytic gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) was applied. A combination of integrated TG-FTIR method with Py-GC/MS applied for studying the wood of suppressed Scots pine allowed us to take a new look at rot-induced changes of the wood chemical composition. The results obtained by TG-FTIR method and by Py-GC/MS method are in good agreement with each other, showing that rot fungi cause the depletion of the aromatic component in the wood of suppressed Scots pine. A detailed study of the holocellulose fraction revealed an increase in the relative content of cyclopentenones, sugars, and a decrease in the relative content of furans in samples of the wood of suppressed Scots pine. It has been established that benzenes, phenols, guaiacyl lignin fragments, and syringyl lignin fragments are destroyed in samples of suppressed trees when exposed to a fungal infection. The use of these methods will help to identify trees affected by a fungal infection at an early stage that cannot be determined visually.

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Funding was provided by Russian Science Foundation project “Strategy for adaptive forest management of the Siberian boreal forests under global change” (№ 21-46-07002).

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  1. Department of Woody Plant Physical and Chemical Biology, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 50/28 Akademgorodok st., Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 660036

    Ekaterina Tyutkova, Sergey Loskutov & Daniil Dorzhiev

  2. Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodny pr., Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 660041

    Daniil Dorzhiev

  3. Department of Forestry and Soil Science, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 50/28 Akademgorodok st., Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 660036

    Alexey Petrenko

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Tyutkova, E., Loskutov, S., Dorzhiev, D. et al. Physical and chemical wood characteristics of healthy vs. suppressed Scots pine trees of Central Siberia. J Therm Anal Calorim 148, 11743–11752 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-023-12496-4

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