Wood-degrading fungi vary in their strategies for deconstructing wood, and their competitive
successes shape the rate and fate of carbon released from wood, Earth's largest pool of …

Fungi are ecologically outstanding decomposers of lignocellulose. Fungal lignocellulose
degradation is prominent in saprotrophic Ascomycota and Basidiomycota of the subkingdom …

Background The dominant fungi in arid grasslands and shrublands are members of the
Ascomycota phylum. Ascomycota fungi are important drivers in carbon and nitrogen cycling …

The efficiency of microorganisms to degrade lignified plants is of great importance in the
Earth's carbon cycle, but also in industrial biorefinery processes, such as for biofuel …

Lignocellulosic plant biomass is an important feedstock for bio-based economy. In particular,
it is an abundant renewable source of aromatic compounds, which are present as part of …

Brown rot fungi are wood-degrading fungi that employ both oxidative and hydrolytic
mechanisms to degrade wood. Hydroxyl radicals that facilitate the oxidative component are …

Lignin is a biopolymer found in plant cell walls that accounts for 30% of the organic carbon
in the biosphere. White-rot fungi (WRF) are considered the most efficient organisms at …

Wood-devastating insects utilize their symbiotic microbes with lignocellulose-degrading
abilities to extract energy from recalcitrant woods. It is well known that free-living …

Myceliophthora thermophila is a thermophilic fungus whose genome encodes a wide range
of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) involved in plant biomass degradation. Such …

Wood-degrading fungi use a sequence of oxidative and hydrolytic mechanisms to loosen
lignocellulose and then release and metabolize embedded sugars. These temporal …