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Random House
Language
English
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"Living at the border between life and non-life, fungi use diverse cocktails of potent enzymes and acids to disassemble some of the most stubborn substances on the planet, turning rock into soil and wood into compost, allowing plants to grow. Fungi not only help create soil, they send out networks of tubes that enmesh roots and link plants together in the "Wood Wide Web." Fungi also drive many long-standing human fascinations: from yeasts that cause...
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Publisher
Arbordale Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Everything around us is made from the Earth. Some things are easily replaced, while others are not. Think about the food you have eaten or the energy it took to zoom to school on the bus. What natural resources have you used today, and are they easy to replace? Step through the latest book in the Compare and Contrast series to learn about the world's resources, how long they take to reproduce, and how technology and ingenuity are helping to relieve...
13) Bioprocesses for value-added products from renewable resources: new technologies and applications
Publisher
Elsevier
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English