Assertion: lignin | /r/HasProperty | detected in wood
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text: Although we cannot directly measure a rate of lignin degradation, or identify specific genes or organisms responsible for this degradation at this time, the striking modifications to lignin detected in wood after passage through these insect guts is quite astonishing in regard to the short period that wood is held in the insect digestive system (only several hours), compared with the weeks for which similar degradation has been reported for wood-rot fungal systems (15, 16).