fungus Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:25:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Heat-Loving Fungi Help Making Biomass-based Fuels https://www.greenoptimistic.com/heat-fungi-biomass-biofuels-20111005/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/heat-fungi-biomass-biofuels-20111005/#respond Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:25:03 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=20650 An international group of scientists have cracked the genetic code of two heat-loving fungi, Myceliophthora thermophila and Thielavia terrestris, and could use their findings for faster and greener development of biofuels derived from biomass. They discovered that the two fungi can accelerate the breakdown of fiber-containing biomass at temperatures between 40 and 70 degrees Celsius. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/heat-fungi-biomass-biofuels-20111005/feed/ 0 20650 Gliocladium Roseum: Rotten Grapes Fungus Produces Diesel https://www.greenoptimistic.com/diesel-fungus-gliocladium-roseum-20081106/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/diesel-fungus-gliocladium-roseum-20081106/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:28:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1152 Gliocladium Roseum is a fungus from the Patagonian rainforest, that also grows on wine grapes. It cannot be burned directly, but it seems to produce diesel fuel (or at least molecules found in diesel), out of cellulose.

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