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Someday we may fill the tank with fungi fuel!
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Someday we may fill the tank with fungi fuel!

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Subject ScienceBiology
Grade Level Grades 9-12
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Over is 50-year career, Montana State University plant pathologist Gary Strobel has traveled to all seven continents to collect samples of endophytes from remote and sometimes dangerous places. Endophytes are microorganisms – bacteria and fungi – that live within the living tissue of a plant.
With support from the National Science Foundation, Strobel, engineer Brent Peyton and their team at Montana State University have discovered that endophytes have the ability to make diesel-like fuel.

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