Researchers use fungus to improve corn-to-ethanol process

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Iowa State University researchers left to right Anthony L. Pometto III Hans van Leeuwen and Mary Rasmussen display the 2008 Grand Prize for University Research recently presented to their research team by the American Academy of Environmental Enginee ...
Iowa State University researchers, left to right, Anthony L. Pometto III, Hans van Leeuwen and Mary Rasmussen display the 2008 Grand Prize for University Research recently presented to their research team by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Not pictured is Samir Khanal, a former Iowa State research assistant professor who's now at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Photo by Bob Elbert/Iowa State University

Growing a fungus in some of the leftovers from ethanol production can save energy, recycle more water and improve the livestock feed that’s a co-product of fuel production, according to a team of researchers from Iowa State University and the University of Hawai’i.


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