All Articles Tagged As: mushrooms

Decoding Mushroom's Secrets Could Combat Carbon, Find Better Biofuels And Safer Soils (7/20/2007)

Researchers at the University of Warwick are co-ordinating a global effort to sequence the genome of one of the World's most important mushrooms - Agaricus bisporus. The secrets of its genetic make up could assist the creation of biofuels, support the effort to manage global carbon, and help remove heavy metals from contaminated soils. ...> Full Article

Modified Mushrooms May Yield Human Drugs (6/28/2007)

Mushrooms might serve as biofactories for the production of various beneficial human drugs, according to plant pathologists who have inserted new genes into mushrooms. ...> Full Article