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Research Journal of Microbiology

Year: 2007 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 6 | Page No.: 504-508
DOI: 10.17311/jm.2007.504.508
Durability Assessment of Preservatives Treated Bambusa vulgaris in Unsterile Soil Burial Tests
Razak Wahab, Mohd Tamizi Mustapa, Mahmud Sudin and Janshah Moktar

Abstract: Cultivated Bambusa vulgaris at internodes 6, 7 and 8 of 2 and 4 years old culms were chemically treated with preservatives Ammoniacal-copper-quaternary (ACQ), Borax-Boric Acid (BBA) and Copper-chrome Arsenate (CCA). Preservatives strength at 1, 2, 4 and 8% were introduced to the bamboo through vacuum impregnation, soaking and high pressure sap-displacement processes. Unsterile soil laboratory burial laboratory tests were then conducted on the bamboo blocks taken from internodes 7. At the end of the testing period (8 weeks), the 2 year-old B. vulgaris were found to experiences higher weight loss than the 4 year-old to attack of decaying fungi. The treatment process of vacuum impregnation proved to be better than soaking and high pressure sap-displacement with the treated blocks showing lower weight loss against decaying fungi. This is followed by soaking and high pressure sap-displacement processes. The 4% preservatives solution strength was found to be sufficient in controlling the decaying fungi.

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Razak Wahab, Mohd Tamizi Mustapa, Mahmud Sudin and Janshah Moktar, 2007. Durability Assessment of Preservatives Treated Bambusa vulgaris in Unsterile Soil Burial Tests. Research Journal of Microbiology, 2: 504-508.

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