<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/news/how-biofuel-crops-harness-fungal-defenders.aspx" dsn="blogs"><homehero/><pubDate>03/15/2023</pubDate><title>How biofuel crops harness fungal defenders</title><description>Michigan State University researcher Acer VanWallendael understands the public’s fascination with fungus. It is, after all, a fungus that kicks off the zombie apocalypse in the hit HBO series “The Last of Us.”</description><author/><hero-image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2023/grassedbanner1.PNG" alt="A field and text that reads: the grassed of us"/></hero-image><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2023/the%20grassed%20of%20us1.png" alt="A field and text that reads: the grassed of us"/></image><tags><tag>faculty</tag><tag>research</tag></tags></item>