In addition, because enzymes from white rot fungi are able to break down complex organic molecules, they have been investigated for use in bioremediation operations that involve breaking down ...

White rot' fungi that decay dead wood in forests can be harnessed ... Erika Winquist's doctoral dissertation is "The potential of ligninolytic fungi in bioremediation of contaminated soils". She ...

Stevenson’s work focuses on mycoremediation, a technique that uses fungi to rehabilitate polluted land. Mycoremediation harnesses fungi’s natural abilities to collect contaminants scattered in soil ...

Fungi could be used to expand bioremediation for the destruction ... takes place in a treatment plant where the mycelia of white rot fungi are allowed to grow in the polluted soil.

Leila Darwish, the author of Earth Repair, a book about how to incorporate bioremediation ... waste streams. The fungi (Mycocycle has been working with white-rot fungi recently) absorb and digest ...

By comparing 12 newly sequenced genomes of mushroom fungi with 19 existing genomes, the researchers determined that an ancestral white rot fungi (Agaricomycetes) first evolved the ability to break ...

On the negative (or anode) side of the ‘battery’ is a yeast fungus whose metabolism releases electrons. It is complemented by a white rot fungus on the positive (cathode) side which produces a ...