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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.
List of contents
11. Fungal biotechnology: An overview
SECTION 1 Fungal bioactives2. 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 industries8. 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 agriculture19. 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 management23. 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
About the author
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.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).
