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Montana State University receives $2 million to further study diesel-producing South American fungus

December 16, 2009 /

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Montana State University professors are taking the next step in research that could make it possible to produce biofuel from wood chips using a fungus discovered in South America.

This fall, the university received a four-year, $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The money will allow faculty members at MSU and collaborators at Yale University to conduct a detailed study of the fungus Gliocladium roseum, which naturally produces gases that contain many of the same hydrocarbon compounds found in petroleum-based diesel fuel.

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering http://www.chbe.montana.edu/

By Michael Becker, MSU News Service

Full Story: http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=7872

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