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Improved test can screen fungal pests for biofuel sources

(PhysOrg.com) -- Those pesky fungi that wreak havoc on such important crops as corn and wheat just might be the key to low-cost biofuel production, report Cornell researchers who have improved a method to ...

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Exploiting Trichoderma: From food security to biotechnology

From improving food security to their use as biotechnology power horses, Trichoderma fungi are increasingly being exploited by industry. Current advances in the field are brought together and highlighted in a special issue ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Generating ethanol from lignocellulose possible, but large cost reductions still needed

The production of ethanol from lignocellulose-rich materials such as wood residues, waste paper, used cardboard and straw cannot yet be achieved at the same efficiency and cost as from corn starch. A cost comparison has concluded ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers advance next generation biofuels by turning up the heat on biomass pretreatment processes

The nation's Renewable Fuels Standard calls for annual production of 36 billion gallons of biofuel by 2022. One of the biggest hurdles to achieving this goal lies in optimizing the multistep process involved ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hot springs microbe yields record-breaking, heat-tolerant enzyme

Bioprospectors from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found a microbe in a Nevada hot spring that happily eats plant material – cellulose – ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Salt-loving microbe provides new enzymes for the production of next-gen biofuels

In order to realize the full potential of advanced biofuels that are derived from non-food sources of lignocellulosic biomass—e.g., agricultural, forestry, and municipal waste, and crops such as poplar, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Allure of pineapple

Alluring dresses from pineapple? Scientists in Malaysia are looking into the potential of another 'cotton' – the pineapple. Jamil Salleh of UiTM, Shah Alam, Malaysia is to asses techniques to extract the long fibres ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers expand yeast's sugary diet to include plant fiber

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Berkeley, researchers have taken genes from grass-eating fungi and stuffed them into yeast, creating strains that produce alcohol from tough plant material - cellulose ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New hydrolysis model promising tool in cellulosic biofuel studies

Scientists are working hard to develop the tools and find the organisms to break down the complex structure of plant cellulose into its component sugars - the key step toward fermentation of those sugars into usable biofuel. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cell signaling classification system gives researchers new tool

Using ever-growing genome data, scientists with the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee are tracing the evolution of the bacterial regulatory system that controls cellular ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Killer mushrooms! Researcher guides work into deadly mushroom often confused with edible ones

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is thought to have been responsible for the deaths of emperors. In parts of California’s forests, it is everywhere.

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created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0


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