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Wood Degradation and Ligninolytic Fungi
- 1st Edition, Volume 99 - August 5, 2021
- Editors: Mélanie Morel-Rouhier, Rodnay Sormani
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 6 8 6 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 6 9 5 - 8
Wood Degradation and Ligninolytic Fungi, Volume 99 summarizes current knowledge on wood degradation by fungi. Chapters in this new release include Intracellular detoxification… Read more
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Request a sales quoteWood Degradation and Ligninolytic Fungi, Volume 99 summarizes current knowledge on wood degradation by fungi. Chapters in this new release include Intracellular detoxification strategies of lignolytic fungi, Cell signaling during wood degradation, Evolution of ligninolytic systems in fungi, Diversity and distribution of lignolytic fungi, Fungal catalysts for lignin valorization: applied aspects, Expression of fungal lignocellulolytic genes in the environment, Wood degradation in grapevine disease, Imaging wood degradation, Lignin degradation by ascomycetes, and more.
The increasing interest for wood decaying fungi over the past few years has sparked great potential for their use in biomass valorization, their important function in global carbon cycle, and for the damages they can cause on wood materials, hence this new release includes updates on these and related topics.
- Based on recent research and genomic data
- Presents the multidisciplinary aspects of wood degradation
- Deals with regulation and adaptation of fungi in the complex environment of wood
Researchers, students
Fungal biologists, plant biologists working on plant cell wall, researcher working on lignocellulosic materials valorization
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Diversity and distribution of ligninolytic fungi
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Diversity, cryptic species and speciation
- 3: Individuality and population divergence
- 4: Distribution and adaptation
- 5: Conclusions and future perspectives
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Two: Evolution of lignin decomposition systems in fungi
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Lignin is an abundant biopolymer of terrestrial ecosystems
- 3: Ligninolytic abilities across the fungal tree of life and fungi with diverse ecology
- 4: Gene families involved in lignin degradation
- 5: The appearance of white rot in mushroom forming fungi; a change in the fate of organic carbon
- 6: The evolution of lignin degradation systems in white-rot fungi might have happened in steps
- 7: The appearance of brown-rot fungi and the loss of extensive lignin degradation
- 8: Evolution of mushroom forming fungi with unusual wood decay characteristics
- 9: Evidence for the existence of gradients of ligninolytic abilities in white-rot fungi and litter decomposers
- 10: The transitions to mycorrhizal lifestyles with plants as hosts and the fate of lignin decomposition
- 11: Soft rot and lignin degradation evolution in Ascomycota; a remaining black box
- 12: Open questions in the evolution of lignin degradation in fungi
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Three: Lignin degradation by ascomycetes
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Ascomycetes from many classes of Pezizomycotina are able to decay wood
- 3: Ascomycetes can breakdown “ancient” lignin
- 4: Mining the genomes of ascomycetes for genes involved in lignin degradation
- 5: Enzymes used by ascomycetes to break down lignin
- 6: Conclusion
- Chapter Four: Wood as a hostile habitat for ligninolytic fungi
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Wood moisture is one of the most important factors for fungal degradation
- 3: Fungi need to adhere on the wood surface to develop
- 4: Wood structural durability and sugar accessibility to fungi
- 5: Fungi need to cope with wood chemicals
- 6: Conclusion
- Chapter Five: How to rot: A role for TOR. Interplay between carbon catabolite repression and TOR signaling pathway
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Interplays between glucose-induced carbon catabolite repression pathway and TOR signaling pathway in the yeast S. cerevisiae
- 3: Lessons from the “soft-rot” fungi
- 4: A role for TOR in basidiomycete “white-rot” fungi
- 5: Conclusion
- Chapter Six: Wood degradation in grapevine diseases
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Grapevine wood properties
- 3: Wood defense mechanisms
- 4: Wood infection by GTD fungi
- 5: Conclusion
- Chapter Seven: Wood degradation by Panaque nigrolineatus, a neotropical catfish: diversity and activity of gastrointestinal tract lignocellulolytic and nitrogen fixing communities
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: P. nigrolineatus anatomy and physiology
- 3: The P. nigrolineatus microbiome
- 4: The active cellulolytic community
- 5: The nitrogen-fixing consortia
- 6: Fungal diversity
- 7: Effect of diet on the enteric microbiome
- 8: Conclusions and future perspectives
- Acknowledgments
- No. of pages: 250
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 99
- Published: August 5, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128216866
- eBook ISBN: 9780128216958
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Mélanie Morel-Rouhier
Mélanie Morel-Rouhier is a professor at Lorraine University in France. She did her phD on nitrogen uptake and assimilation in ectomycorrhizas and then moved on heavy metal transport in Arabidopsis thaliana during her post-doc. Since 2008, she is doing her research within the IAM Unit. She is interested in the detoxification systems developed by decaying fungi in the context of wood degradation. During her recent years, she focused on the functional, biochemical and structural characterization of the glutathione transferase superfamily. Thanks to the “omics” wave, she is now working on other molecular candidates explaining the stress resistance and adaptation of decay fungi to wood and in particular to the putative antifungal wood extractives.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Lorraine University, FranceRS
Rodnay Sormani
Rodnay Sormani performed his thesis working on regulation of translation in plants under the supervision of Pr. C. Robaglia. As a post doc, he worked on the TOR signaling pathway in plants in the team of Dr. C. Meyer. During his second post-doc, he worked on the cell wall integrity signaling pathway in plants in the team of Dr. H. Hofte. He joined the « Université de Lorraine » as associate professor and as a member of IAM (UMR1136 UL INRAE) working on wood decay by white-rot fungi.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Universite de Lorraine, FranceRead Wood Degradation and Ligninolytic Fungi on ScienceDirect