Wound Dressing was studied by mycologist, tree biologist, chemist and so forth by the US FOREST SERVICE researchers. Here at the bottom of the page is a publication titled WOUND DRESSINGS: RESULTS OF STUDIES OVER 13 YEARS in Journal of Arboriculture.
His material is here:
My critics are primarily from Texas. They disagree with most of Modern Arboriculture treatments based on a thorough understanding of tree biology. Go figure. Don Staples, from Texas, is a practicing forester with communication problems with the researchers in tree biology. The story addressing the communication problem is here:
There is a time when wound dressing could be helpful. If you make a flush cut, like many oaks in Texas suffer from, and paint it with wound dressing. The wound dressing will stimulate the succession of micro organisms and speed up the rot process. This would give you a cavity. Not good for the individual but good for small wildlife that use cavities. In wildlife management I often make flush cuts in the woods for small wildlife. I rather not use the wound dressing.
If anybody has any data to state that through research, with controls, wound dressing has been proven to stop microorganisms or the succession of microorganisms, please email with the data. I would be happy to review it.