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Fungal Biotechnology

Industrial Applications and Market Potential

  • 1st Edition - November 16, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Ram Sarup Singh, Ranjeeta Bhari
  • Language: English

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Description

Fungal Biotechnology: Industrial Applications and Market Potential provides a comprehensive and holistic review on the uses of filamentous fungi in food, agriculture, and pharmaceutical industries. In addition to genetic and metabolic engineering approaches for heterologous proteins production in fungi, the book focuses on fungi as a source of bioactive compounds like enzymes, polysaccharides, alkaloids, glycoproteins, and phytohormones. It describes recent trends in the use of fungi for solid waste management and its subsequent conversion into value added products.

As a complete guide on the broad uses of microfungi in different industrial sectors while maintaining a sustainable environment, this book is a beneficial resource for students, researchers, and scientists as an effective means of imparting knowledge on the current trends and future perspectives in the field of fungal biotechnology.

Key features

  • Emphasizes updated research and developments in the field of Fungal Biotechnology
  • Encompasses the use of filamentous fungi to produce specialty chemicals and bioactive compounds
  • incorporates recent developments in the use of fungi for sustainable environment, waste management, and waste recycling into value added compounds
  • Highlights the benefits for future developments in the field of mycobiology

Readership

graduate and post graduate students and researchers working in the field of mycobiology, microbial technology and environmental biotechnologyresearchers working in industry and academia

Table of contents

1. Fungal biotechnology: An overview
SECTION 1 Fungal bioactives

2. Production of organic acids by filamentous fungi: A review

3. Production of heterologous proteins in filamentous fungi

4. Fungi as sources of industrial enzymes: Sources, production, properties, structure and applications

5. Fungal synthesis of nanoparticles and its applications

6. Engineered living materials based on fungi

7. Multi-omics research in fungus: Current progress and future prospects
SECTION 2 Fungi in food and pharmaceutical industries

8. Fungal single cell proteins

9. Global perspectives on fungal fermented foods: Nutritional benefits, microbial diversity and sustainability

10. Biopharmaceuticals from filamentous fungi

11. Fungal lectins in biomedical research

12. Alkaloids from mangrove fungi: Applications and market potential

13. Industrial biotransformations using fungi

14. Isolation and characterization of mycotoxins and their control

15. Properties and applications of fungal polysaccharides

16. Bioactive glucans from mushroom spores

17. Biotechnological approaches in the production of fungal pigments

18. Fungal alchemy: Harnessing fungi and their enzymes for flavor production
SECTION 3 Fungi in agriculture

19. Fungal phytohormones

20. Current trends on using AM fungi as biofertilizers

21. Framework for mass production of entomopathogenic fungi in bioeconomy context

22. Mycoherbicides: An eco-smart alternative for sustainable weed control
SECTION 4 Fungi in waste management

23. Filamentous fungi in valorization of pollutants from aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

24. Fungi in solid waste management and material recycling

25. Mycopackaging approaches toward environmental protection

26. Fungi as potent bioresource for biofuel production

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 18, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

RS

Ram Sarup Singh

Dr. Singh is working in the area of Industrial Biotechnology particularly industrial enzymes, biopolymers, glycoproteins, biofuels, etc. from fungal sources. He has more than 300 publications, including 200 research papers, 5 books, 45 book chapters, and 50 popular articles and has been granted 2 Indian patents. He has many national and international awards to his credit. He is Fellow of Biotech Research Society of India, Association of Microbiologists of India and Mycological Society of India. He was guest editor of Biologia, Indian Journal of Experimental biology and Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research in 2012.
Affiliations and expertise
Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Punjab, India

RB

Ranjeeta Bhari

Dr. Ranjeeta Bhari is Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Punjabi University, Patiala (Punjab), India. She has a PhD in Biotechnology in the area of Microbial technology, fungal glycoproteins and their therapeutic value. Her research interests fungi and their applications in biotechnology, fungal enzymes, proteins, glycoproteins and their applications in agriculture and management of solid waste. She has published review articles in Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, Biotechnology Advances and Current Microbiology. She has also contributed chapters in edited books. She is a life member of Biotechnology Research Society, India (BRSI) and Mycological Society of India (MSI).
Affiliations and expertise
Punjabi University, Department of Biotechnology,Punjab, India

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