Our Sustainable Future: White rot fungus boosts ethanol production from corn stalks, cobs and leaves

Published: Oct. 22, 2022, 6:44 p.m.

Today’s solution is a fungus that shows promise in the search for a way to use waste corn stalks, cobs and leaves – rather than corn itself – to produce ethanol to extend supplies of gasoline. The research appears in the ACS’ journal Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research.