Developments in Fungal Biology and Applied Mycology

ISBN-13: 9789811047671 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 605 str.

Tulasi Satyanarayana; Sunil K. Deshmukh; B. N. Johri

Opis

This book explores the developments in important aspects of fungi related to the environment, industrial mycology, microbiology, biotechnology, and agriculture.

Spis treści

1. Significant contributions of Prof. Shyam Bahadur Saksena to Indian mycology

R. S. Mehrotra, M.R. Siddiqui and Ashok Aggarwal

 

2. Biology and significance of Saksenea vasiformis

Itisha Singh and R.K.S.Kushwaha

 

3. History of Mycology in India: Some Glimpses

C. Manoharachary

 

4.Various aspects of ammonia fungi              

Akira Suzuki

 

5. Marine Filamentous Fungi: Diversity, Distribution and Bioprospecting

K.R. Sridhar,

 

6. Keratinophilic Fungi and Their Biotechnological Potentials 

ShilpaVerekar and Sunil Kumar Deshmukh

 

7. Fungal World of Cave Ecosystem

Seema Rawat, Rachna Rautela and B.N. Johri

 

8. Biology of Anaerobic Gut Fungi

D.N. Kamra and Birbal Singh

 

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9.. Fusarium oxysporum: Genomics, diversity and plant host interaction

Anjul Rana, ManvikaSahgal and Bhavdish N Johri

 

10. Yeast genome sequencing: basic biology to biotechnology

Krishna Kant Sharma

 

11. Fungal differentiation: A model phenomenon to screen antifungal drugs

E. K. Pathan, S. G. Tupe and M.V. Deshpande

 

12. Candida albicans Biofilm as a Clinical Challenge                                                                                      

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Ashwini Jadhav and Sankunny Mohan Karuppayil   

 

13. Characteristics and multifarious potential applications of HAP phytase of the

      unconventional yeast Pichia anomala

Swati Joshi and T. Satyanarayana

 

14. Fungal Inulinolytic Enzymes: A current appraisal

Hemant Kumar Rawat, Hemant Soni and Naveen Kango

 

15. Fungal Tannase: Recent advances and industrial applications

Sunny Dhiman,Anu Kumar, Gunjan Mukherjee, Papiya Mukherjee, Sunil Kumar Deshmukh &n

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16. Mycoremediation: an alternative treatment option for heavy metal bearing waste

      water

TuhinaVerma, Annapurna Maurya, Satyendra Kumar Garg

 

17. Treatment of landfill leachate using fungi: An efficient and cost-effective strategy

Pooja Ghosh and Indu Shekhar Thakur

 

18. Studies on Mycorrhizae in Pinus gerardiana, a threatened pine of the NW Himalayas

Sunil Kumar, VaneetJishtu, J.S. Thakur and TN Lakhanpal

 

19. Role of phosphate solubilizing fungi in sustainable agriculture

Gurdeep Kaur and M. Sudhakara Reddy

 

20. Role of Fungicides in Crop Health Management: Prospects and Challenges

T.S. Thind

 

21. Bioherbicides: Strategies, Challenges and Prospects

K. R. Aneja, S. A. Khan and A. Aneja

 

22. Characterization of Lamellate Mushrooms - An Appra

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N. S. Atri, Munruchi Kaur and Samidha Sharma

 

23. Occurrence and distribution of mushrooms in semi – ever green Sal (Shorearobusta)     

      forest Chhattisgarh, Central - India.   Kamlesh Shukla, R.V. Shukla

 

24. Fungal Pigments

Gunjan Mukherjee, Tulika Mishra, Sunil Kumar Deshmukh

 

25. Ex-situ Conservation of Fungi

Sanjay K. Singh

 

26. Camouflaged mycotoxins in some field crops and forages

SkarmaNonzom and Geeta Sumbali

O autorze

Prof. T. Satyanarayana became a faculty fellow at the Division of Biological Sciences & Engineering, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (affiliated to the University of Delhi), New Delhi after retiring from Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi in 2016. He has over 270 scientific papers and reviews, 6 edited books and 3 patents to his credit. He is a fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), the Biotech Research Society (I) and the Mycological Society of India (MSI). He has 40 years of research and teaching experience and was president of the AMI and MSI. His research has focused on understanding the diversity and applications of yeasts, thermophilic fungi and bacteria and their enzymes as well as carbon sequestration using extremophilic bacterial carbonic anhydrases.

Dr. Bhavdish N Johri is a professor and NASI senior scientist at the Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Centre, Barkatullah University, India. He has been the recipient of many academic awards, including the Indian National Science Academy’s Young Scientist Medal, Rafi Kidwai Memorial award and Acharya PC Ray Fellowship (MPCST). He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (I), National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and National Institute of Ecology. He has extensive teaching and research experience, and has 148 research publications and 3 edited books to his credit.

Dr. Sunil Kumar Deshmukh is a fellow and area convenor at the Nano-Biotechnology Research Centre, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. He was assistant director (Natural Products) at Piramal Enterprises Ltd., Mumbai. He has broad industrial experience in the field of applied microbiology. He is now president of the Mycological Society of India. He has 100 publications and eight patent to his credit. He has also edited seven books.

Blurb

This book explores the developments in important aspects of fungi related to the environment, industrial mycology, microbiology, biotechnology, and agriculture. It discusses at length both basic and applied aspects of fungi and provides up-to-date laboratory-based data.

Of the estimated three million species of fungi on Earth, according to Hawksworth and coworkers, more than 100,000 have been described to date. Many fungi produce toxins, organic acids, antibiotics and other secondary metabolites, and are sources of useful biocatalysts such as cellulases, xylanases, proteases and pectinases, to mention a few. They can also cause diseases in animals as well as plants and many are able to break down complex organic molecules such as lignin and pollutants like xenobiotics, petroleum and polycyclic aromatic compounds. Current research on mushrooms focuses on their hypoglycemic, anti-cancer, anti-pathogenic and immunity-enhancing activities.

This ready-reference resource on various aspects of fungi is intended for graduate and post-graduate students as well as researchers in life sciences, microbiology, botany, environmental sciences and biotechnology.