Cow dung will help you no longer have headache because of gas price?

Scientists have recently discovered the immense role of fungi in animal manure. They have the ability to decompose organic compounds - an extremely expensive process in the bioenergy industry. This discovery opens up a new, promising way to reduce production costs very much.

The process of extracting biofuel from plants is very difficult and expensive because the material used for fermenting sugar is mostly covered by a lignin layer of bark cells. Breaking this shell is a real challenge.

However, buffaloes, cows, horses and hundreds of other herbivores have done this for millions of years, thanks to their digestive enzymes. The enzymes of fungal species in their droppings also have similar capabilities. If science is capable of extracting and using these enzymes, biofuels will be extremely cheap, enough to knock out gas fuel from energy competition.

In the conference of the American Chemical Society held in New Orleans, Santa Barbara scientist at the University of California, it has been many years of research on bacterial species in the gastrointestinal tract of Herbivores like cows and horses, but have not given adequate attention to fungal strains. The main reason is because the number of fungal strains in the digestive tract of these animals is quite small, so few people are able to recognize their importance.

She also said that her laboratory is urgently conducting the extraction of enzymes of these fungi and cultivating them on a large scale. However, there are still some challenges to overcome, namely that the fungi are very difficult to survive in the oxygen environment, and their culture environment is quite complicated.