Table 3.
Weight loss percentage of the screws embedded into woods and in fungal culture media

Species	Parashorea smythiesii			Parashorea tomentella			Overall average % loss (%)
	Bottom	Middle	Top	Bottom	Middle	Top	In wood	In culture media
	Chaetomium globosum	0.75^fghij	0.91^fghij	0.44^ghij	0.21^ij	0.99^fghij	0.50^ghij	0.63^e	4.36^b
Lentinus lepideus	0.10^j	0.28^hij	0.71^fghij	1.08^fghij	0.77^fghij	1.83^bcdefghij	0.79^e	3.48^b
Phlebia brevispora	0.99^fghij	0.80^fghij	1.77^cdefghij	1.78^cdefghij	3.27^abc	1.83^bcdefghij	1.74^bc	3.34^b
Polyporus arcularius	3.11^abcd	1.46^defghij	2.00^bcdefgh	2.97^abcde	3.55^ab	3.56^ab	2.78^a	2.86^b
Polyporus sp.	1.35^efghij	0.30^hij	2.04^bcdefgh	1.03^fghij	1.12^fghij	0.47^ghij	1.05^de	2.81^b
Pycnoporus sanguineus	1.05^fghij	1.48^defghij	0,87^fghij	1.88^bcdefghi	2.19^abcdefg	0.84^fghij	1.38^cd	2.51^b
Schizophyllum commune	1.52^cdefghij	0.58^ghij	2.44^abcdef	3.95^a	1.31^efghij	3.56^ab	2.23^b	8.54^a
Tyromyces palustris	1.52^cdefghij	1.99^bcdefgh	1.54^cdefghij	1.41^defghij	0.73^fghij	1.35^efghij	1.41^cd	0.94^b
Average % loss of bottom part		1.30			1.79			1.54
Average % loss of middle part		0.98			1.74			1.36
Average % loss of top part		1.48			1.74			1.61
Overall average % loss (%)		1.24^b			1.75^a

Remarks: Average weight loss in the column as well as in the row followed horizontally, and overall average percentage weight loss values in each column and row followed by same letters are not significantly different (Tukey test, p≤0.05).