Mushroom Detectives Find Key to Low-cost Biofuels
October 3rd, 2011 | by Tina Casey
Heat-loving fungi could provide a key enzyme for making low cost biofuel, and a team of "mushroom detectives" from the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute think they've just nailed their man - er, fungus. In an article published just yesterday in Nature Biotechnology, the team identified two types of fungi that can boost the biofuel refining process along at temperatures up to 75 degrees
