It's not so much the cellulose, it's the lignin that makes wood so hard to digest. Fungi resort to producing peroxides instead of attacking it directly with tailored enzymes
> relatively simple organic polymers Sure, they contain carbon backbones. But structurally that's about the only thing they have in common. Compare PU[0] and Teflon[1]. The former is marginally bio-degradeable. The…
It's not so much the cellulose, it's the lignin that makes wood so hard to digest. Fungi resort to producing peroxides instead of attacking it directly with tailored enzymes
> relatively simple organic polymers Sure, they contain carbon backbones. But structurally that's about the only thing they have in common. Compare PU[0] and Teflon[1]. The former is marginally bio-degradeable. The…