Fungi that evolved to eat wood offer new biomass conversion tool

Monday, July 24, 2017 - 11:32 in Biology & Nature

Twenty years ago, microbiologist Barry Goodell, now a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and colleagues discovered a unique system that some microorganisms use to digest and recycle wood. Three orders of "brown rot fungi" have now been identified that can break down biomass, but details of the mechanism were not known.

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