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Article: MSU-led team finds new type of fuel in Patagonia fungus.(UPDATE)
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- Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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In Brief: A team led by a Montana State University professor has found a fungus that produces a new type of diesel fuel, which holds great promise as an alternative to fossil fuels and is at its earliest stage of development.
Calling the fungus' output "myco-diesel," Gary Strobel, MSU professor of plant sciences and plant pathology, says the find is even bigger than his 1993 discovery of fungus that contained the anticancer drug taxol.
Strobel, who travels the world looking for exotic plants that may contain beneficial microbes, found the diesel-producing fungus in a Patagonia rain forest. Strobel visited the rain forest in 2002 and collected a variety ...