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AN investigation was started in December 1954 into the storage qualities of groundwood pulp impregnated with 25–35 p.p.m. of phenyl mercuric acetate, compared with unimpregnated pulp made at the same time. One object of this work was to follow the course of infection of the pulps by blueing and wood-rotting fungi (Basidiomycetes), the latter frequently being responsible for the condition known as ‘red-rot’, and also to try to discover why phenyl mercuric acetate, although toxic to many Basidio-mycetes at low concentrations, frequently fails to protect ground wood pulp from attack by ‘red-rot’ after a few months storage. Some significant conclusions have now been reached.
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RUSSELL, P. Inactivation of Phenyl Mercuric Acetate in Groudwood Pulp by a Mercury-resistant Strain of Penicillium roqueforti Thom. Nature 176, 1123–1124 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/1761123b0
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