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The white-rot fungus, Physisporinus vitreus, degrades the membranes ofbordered pits in tracheids and consequently increases the permeability of wood,which is a process that can be used by the wood industry to improve the uptakeof wood preservatives and environmentally benign wood modification substancesto enhance the use and sustainability of native conifer wood species. Tounderstand and apply this process requires an understanding of how a complexsystem (fungus-wood) interacts under defined conditions. We present athree-dimensional fungal growth model (FGM) of the hyphal growth of P. vitreusin the heartwood of Norway spruce. The model considers hyphae and nutrients asdiscrete structures and links the microscopic interactions between fungus andwood (e.g. degradation rate and degree of opening of pits) with macroscopicsystem properties, such penetration depth of the fungus, biomass anddistribution of destroyed pits in early- and latewood. Simulations werecompared with experimental data. The growth of P. vitreus is characterized by astepwise capture of the substrate and the effect of this on wood according todifferent model parameters is discussed.

Modelling the Hyphal Growth of the Wood-decay Fungus Physisporinus vitreus