BioEnergy Fermentation Genome Sequenced
Fungus is efficient fermenter of wood sugar xylose, which is abundant in cellulosic materials. The genes can be engineering to increase biofuel production. ...
... "For cellulosic ethanol production, one major detour has being addressed with the characterization of the genetic blueprint of the fungus Pichia stipitis, by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) and collaborators at the U.S. Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL). The research, entailing the identification of numerous genes in P. stipitis responsible for its fermenting and cellulose-bioconverting prowess, and an analysis of these metabolic pathways ... " ...
Via DOE Joint Genome Institute: Genome Sequenced For Biofuel Production