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Ep. 109: Integrated Land Enhancement & Applied Mycology (feat. Leif Olson)

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White Rot Fungi Degradation Systems

One of the common white rot fungi degradation systems is with an inzime called laccase, or it's also called final oxides. These are very large, complex structures that are actually too large to access the chemical bonds of say, the petroleum hydrocarbon. So they have to use another molecule, which we refer to as a co substrait. And when the lignant or the p h gets oxidized, that doesn't necessarily mean that it’s breaking apart. It might break apart, or it might actually fuse into a larger mol at that point. They're like brainiacs and so they just don't know how these things go on here,. You know?

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