I found the headline today, “Biofuels: Fungus Use Improves Corn-to-ethanol Process” and I was curious to find out what fungus they were talking about in the article. It turns out that researchers at Iowa State University found that Rhizopus microsporus is able to grow off part of the leftovers of ethanol production called thin stillage. [...]
Will a zygomycete help solve our energy woes?
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Chris Villalta · No Comments
Categories: fungi · zygomycete
Tags: biofuels, ethanol, rhizopus, zygomycete
Microbial Ecology in Science
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Jason Stajich · 1 Comment
Science has a section dedicated to Microbial Ecology including a review describing microbial biogeography studying communities on the basis of trait rather than taxonomic diversity. Certainly this interlinks with metagenomic approaches well, something I’ve been thinking about more after visiting some of the folks at Montana State Thermal Biology Institute and all the increasingly massive datasets [...]
Categories: ecology · metagenomics
Tags: diversity, ecology, metagenomics, microbial