Modification of wood with environmentally friendly chemicals to improve decay resistance.

Turkish pine (Pinus brutia Ten.) solid wood was chemically modified to various weight percent gains (WPG) using either acetic, methacrylic, hexanoic and succinic anhydrides. Laboratory soil block decay testing using the brown rot fungus C. puteana and G. trabeum was performed and weight loss calculated. All high degree of modified samples showed good biological resistance and severely reduced degradation. Chemical modification of wood is very important for the prevention of biodeterioration which are environmentally friendly and also not hazardous to human beings.