Fungal wood decay may lead to white or brown rot, or
so called soft rot. The white rot basidiomycetous fungi
are the only organisms able to depolymerize and even
mineralize (to CO2 and H2O) all the components of
wood, primarily cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin [4,
5, 17, 18] with a remarkable ability to decompose the
coloured, aromatic, heterogenous and persistent lignin
phenylpropanoid units naturally synthesized by plants
in their cell walls