Fungal isolates used to assess strength of correlation between wood density loss on birch or pine and two dependent variables, 1) dilute alkali solubility (DAS) and 2) lignin:density loss (L:D).

aBasidio—Basidiomycota; Asco—Ascomycota.bCulture collections: ATCC—American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA, USA. FP and MAD—Center for Forest Mycology Research, U.S Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, USA. All others—University of Minnesota Forest Pathology culture collection, Saint Paul, MN, USA.cWood rot types are from Gilbertson [9]. Brown rot clades are from Hibbett and Donoghue [31]. B-Brown rot; W-White rot; S-Soft rot.cClades are Antrodia, Boletales, Dacrymecetales, Gloeophyllum, and Wolfiporia.Fungal isolates used to assess strength of correlation between wood density loss on birch or pine and two dependent variables, 1) dilute alkali solubility (DAS) and 2) lignin:density loss (L:D).