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Pleurotus ostreatus PC9 Genome sequencing
P. ostreatus fits in DOE's missions of carbon cycling and bioremediation. As a lignin decomposer, it attacks the second largest carbon biopolymer on Earth. This implies that carbon can be mobilized from a rather stable polymer and cellulose (the most abundant biopolymer) is made accessible to cellulolytic systems that make it useful as foodstuff for animals and as substrate for sugar fermentation processes.