This paper deals with the degradation potentials of wood constituents by the bacterial isolates from ponded logs. The potentials to degrade pectin as a constituent of pit-tori as well as starch existing in ray parenchyma cells in the areas of sap- and transition wood with the isolates were examined. The pectinase activity was investigated by means of the degradation degree of a carrot strip used as a single carbon source in a liquid medium. The amylase activity was studied by the colour change on the iodostarch reaction in an agar medium containing soluble starch as a single carbon source. The results suggested that these substrates were degraded sequentially by plural bacterial species that invaded in the logs during ponding.

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