Termites evolved complex bioreactors 30 million years ago
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Sep 25, 2014 - Achieving complete breakdown of plant biomass for energy conversion in industrialized bioreactors remains a complex challenge, but new research shows that termite fungus farmers solved this problem more than 30 million years ago. The new insight reveals that the great success of termite farmers as plant decomposers is due to division of labor between a fungus breaking down complex plant componen ... more
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