<i>Basidiomycota</i> Brown Rot Fungi (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

<i>Basidiomycota</i> Brown Rot Fungi

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Basidiomycota brown rot fungi use a non-enzymatic, chelator-mediated biocatalysis method to digest woody biomass that is very different than methods used by any other microorganism studied, say Barry Goodell and colleagues at UMass Amherst, working with an international team.

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Karel Tejkal, used with permission

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