date:Nov 22, 2012
icated that a microbe known as a white rot fungus showed promise for breaking down that tough plant material prior to treatment with enzymes to release the sugars. To advance that knowledge, the researchers evaluated how well the fungus broke down the different parts of corn stover and improved the sugar yield.
Treating stover with the white rot fungus for one month enabled them to extract up to 30 per cent more sugar from the leaves and 50 per cent more from the stalks and cobs. Because corn l