Sentence examples for digest wood from inspiring English sources

A type of bacteria that helps termites digest wood could be key to making ethanol cheaply from wood and grass.

The net result is that the two microbes digest wood into sugars and other nutrients of use to the termite.

In the Carboniferous period, when most bacteria able to digest wood had not yet evolved, a planetary reservoir of plant carbon was buried and became coal.

Termites, however, rapidly digest wood.

But no one had examined whether the loud crunching at mealtime might have significance beyond simply digesting wood.

In contrast to other cockroaches that are true omnivores, the nine Cryptocercus species described are xylophageous, like termites, and harbor a complex microbiota of protists in their intestine that is responsible for digesting wood (Cleveland et al. 1934; Nalepa 1984).

Wood-decaying fungi attack and digest moist wood, causing diverse rot diseases.

When elongating the burrow, they digest the wood as well.

"They digest the wood and are valuable in terms of nutrient recycling," said Dr. Ken Raffa, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin who studies the beetles.

and termites exhibit obligative mutualism, a strict interdependency, in which the protozoans digest the wood ingested by the termites; neither partner can survive under natural conditions without the other.

Intestinal flagellated protozoans and termites exhibit obligative mutualism, a strict interdependency, in which the protozoans digest the wood ingested by the termites; neither partner can survive under natural conditions without the other.