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Science 23 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5879, p. 985
DOI: 10.1126/science.1159999
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Editorial

Microbes in the Energy Grid

James Tiedje1 and Timothy Donohue2

The current surge in food and fuel prices has sounded an alarm showing why providing a sustainable global energy supply and minimizing climate change are arguably two of the greatest challenges facing 21st-century society. With adequate research and proper implementation, the diverse and often unseen inhabitants of the microbial world--bacteria, yeasts, fungi, and archaea--can help address these challenges.

1James Tiedje is a professor of microbiology and crop and soil sciences and director of the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

2Timothy Donohue is a professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, and principal investigator of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Madison, WI.

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