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

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How Do Fungi Break Down Lignant Structures?

Lignan is the molecular structure that makes wood hard. White rowd fungi evolved to break down these lignant lecules. The mechanisms they use are very non specific, meaning that they're not adapted to just breaking this one type of bond. But if you do look at some schematic of the lignan molecular structure there's lots of carbon rings everywhere.

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