Science journal has published research work on the sequence of the genome of the Serpula lacrymans fungus and in which the Public University of Navarre (UPNA) lecturers Gerardo Pisabarro de Lucas and José Antonio Oguiza Tomé, professor and senior lecturer in Microbiology respectively, participated. The research, largely funded by the US Department of Energy through the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in California, was carried out by an international consortium and aimed to find out what strategies the fungus uses to degrade the lignin part of wood. The elimination of this component of trees is required for the extraction of cellulose, from which alcohol is obtained and with which the idea is to produce biofuels.
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