Gary Strobel
Gary A. Strobel ( born September 23, 1938 in Massillon ( Ohio)) is an American plant physiologist and biochemist. International fame he achieved by the discovery of a diesel -like mixture that is produced by the fungus Clonostachys rosea and has been discussed under the name Mycodiesel as an alternative fuel of the future.
Life
Gary A. Strobel went to 1956 on the Washington High School in his hometown of Massillon, Ohio. Then he studied botany at the Colorado State University and graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science degree. In 1963 he received his doctorate from the University of California in the Department of Plant Physiology.
From 1963 to 1970, Strobel assistant professor at Montana State University, since 1970 he occupied there a regular chair. In 1975 he was a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota from 1976 to 1977 he worked at the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States (United States Department of Agriculture, abbreviated USDA).
He is married to Suzan Strobel and has five children, he is an avowed Christian The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons).
Mycodiesel
In 2008, Strobel published his discovery of a production of hydrocarbons in a diesel -like mixture ratio, which is produced under certain conditions (substrate stress) by the fungus Clonostachys rosea. So far it is accordingly in Mycodiesel (also Myco - Diesel, Eng. Myco - diesel) to a purely experimentally produced biofuel, which is prepared by fungi are involved. An industrial production of fuel does not yet exist. Laboratory tests in 2008, showed that in food production may be waste obtained cellulose is a suitable substrate for the growth of the fungi and production.
Eckhard Boles from the Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, who works himself to the production of biofuels from synthetic yeasts, estimates the manufacturing process due to the oxygen- limited conditions as uneconomical.