Rainforest fungus produces MVOCs that closely resemble diesel fuel

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Rainforest Fungus Naturally Synthesizes Diesel

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/rainforest-fung.html

* > " A fungus that lives inside trees in the Patagonian rain forest naturally

makes a mix of hydrocarbons that bears a striking resemblance to diesel,

biologists announced today. And the fungus can grow on cellulose, a major

component of tree trunks, blades of grass and stalks that is the most

abundant carbon-based plant material on Earth.

> " When we looked at the gas analysis, I was flabbergasted, " said

Strobel, a plant scientist at Montana State University, and the lead author

of a paper in Microbiology describing the find. " We were looking at the

essence of diesel fuel. " *