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October 15, 2012

Button mushroom genome in WalesOnline

As part of an international collaboration, Swansea University researchers have found the soft round fungus (Agaricus bisporus) plays a key part in the carbon cycle which makes the planet habitable.And, bizarrely, it could even one day form the basis of new plastics and bio-oils.

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