Improved test can screen fungal pests for biofuel sources
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 17:35
in Biology & Nature
(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 screen hundreds of fungal species rapidly to find ones that can most efficiently produce biofuels.