A research team analyzed the regulatory mechanisms of carbohydrate-hydrolyzing enzyme production in Aspergillus aculeatus, a filamentous fungus that produces enzymes with an excellent ability to ...

Fungal enzymes could hold secret to making renewable energy from wood Researchers unlock key scientific challenge of how biorefineries can convert wood into biofuel in an environmental and ...

Concordia researchers create tools to find a better way of fighting off pathogen-decaying micro-organisms “While recent decades have seen improvements in growing strains of mammalian or bacterial cell ...

One of the biggest barriers in the commercial production of sustainable biofuels is to cost-effectively break down the bioenergy crops into sugars that can then be converted into fuel. To reduce this ...

Researchers want to transform the natural and abundant resource wood into useful materials, and central to that is a molecular machine found in fungi that decomposes the complex raw material into its ...

An international team of researchers led by some U.S. Department of Energy's research labs has decoded the genetic sequence of a fungus named Tricoderma reesei. The team has found how this organism ...

If you’ve visited the Santa Barbara Zoo, you may have seen members of Michelle O’Malley’s research team. They’re the folks in lab coats and gloves, hanging out with the San Clemente Island goats and ...

The sugarbeet cultivar Kaumera was found to be highly susceptible to infection by the root-rot pathogens Rhizoctonia solani and Sclerotium rolfsii in the absence of salinity stress. Under this ...

It’s a sunny morning, and Sara Landvik is foraging in the wild parts of Hampstead Heath, one of London’s iconic parks. She studies the soil, the trees and their roots in search of fungi, because long ...