Forced Fungus Sex Could Unlock Key Energy Sources

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Helping a fungus have sex could lead to better ways of making biofuels, scientists now suggest.
To make renewable biofuels instead of manufacturing them from the sugars in food crops, researchers want to employ organisms that can make use of the hundreds of millions of tons of cellulose in sawdust, weeds and other plant scrap that would otherwise go to waste.
One especially promising organism when it comes to breaking down cellulose is the soil fungus Trichoderma reesei. It was originally discovered in the Solomon Islands during World War II eating away at the canvas and garments of the U.S. Army.

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Not part of the story but holy cow this is called bleading tooth fungus