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Wood 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.
List of contents
1. Diversity and distribution of ligninolytic fungi
Inger Skrede
2. Evolution of lignin decomposition systems in fungi
Dimitrios Floudas
3. Lignin degradation by ascomycetes
Roselyne Ferrari, Valérie Gautier and Philippe Silar
4. Wood as a hostile habitat for ligninolytic fungi
Mélanie Morel-Rouhier
5. How to rot: A role for TOR. Interplay between carbon catabolite repression and TOR signaling pathway
Delphine Noël, Duy Vuong Nguyen and Rodnay Sormani
6. Wood degradation in grapevine diseases
Marion Schilling, Sibylle Farine, Jean-Pierre-Péros, Christophe Bertsch and Eric Gelhaye
7. Wood degradation by Panaque nigrolineatus, a neotropical catfish: Diversity and activity of gastrointestinal tract lignocellulolytic and nitrogen fixing communities
Joy E.M. Watts, Ryan C. McDonald and Harold J. Schreier
About the author
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.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.
