Mycotechnology : Present Status and Future Prospects
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Molecular methods for analysis of soil fungi/M. Carol Carter and Matthew Gordon. 2. Bioremediation of Aged Pentachlorophenol residues by Trametes spp./Monika Walter, Chris I. Ford, Jenness M. Guthrie, Kirsty S.H. Boyd-Wilson, Hong J. Di, Keith C. Cameron and Emily J. Parker. 3. Penicillin Biosynthesis and secretion: precursor and enzyme localization/Carlos Garcia-Estrada and Juan Francisco Martin. 4. Current trends in molecular diagnosis of Ochratoxin: a producing fungi/L. Niessen. 5. Fungal Chitinases-- an overview on regulation and cloning/Neetu Dahiya. 6. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi in agricultural ecosystem/Cesar Arriagada Escamilla and Mahendra Rai. 7. Strategies for control of disease caused by different species of Phytophthora using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi/Mahendra Rai, Adriana P.D. Silveira and Soraya C. Franca. 8. Fungal culture collections in the mycological work/Lopez, Clara E. and Zacchino A. Susanna. 9. Molecular methods for the identification of Ectomycorrhizal fungi/Alexander Urban. 10. SPPADBASE: The first on-line searchable database of PCR Primers for Phytopathogenic Fungi/Stefano Ghignone and Quirico Migheli. 11. Claviceps: a biotechnologically exploited fungus/Archna Mehta and Pradeep Mehta. 12. Biotechnological applications of Chitin and Chitosan of microbial origin: progress and future perspectives/Jiri Kucera. 13. Biodiversity and biotechnological potentials of fungi from the marine environment/Guangyi Wang, Quanzi Li and Sanghwal Yoon. 14. Aeromycological aspects of Mycotechnology/Donat Magyar. 15. Bioactive sesquiterpenes produced from fungi: possibilities and limitations/Wolf-Rainer Abraham. 16. Mycological applications of Raman Spectroscopy/Kris De Gussem, Peter Vandenabeele, Annemieke Verbeken and Luc Moens. Index.
"Mycotechnology has a crucial role to play in the Twenty First Century. Fungi are bioprotectors, bioremediators, biofertilizers, drug-producers, and are involved in everyday life.
Mycotechnology: Present Status and Future Prospects highlights the ways in which fungal metabolites can be exploited in commerce. It includes current and rare topics on Mycotechnology, such as, Molecular techniques (for analysis of soil fungi, diagnosis of Ochratoxin-A producing fungi, identification of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi), SPPADBASE, Bioactive sesquiterpenes, and mycological applications of Raman Spectroscopy.
Key Features:
Discusses latest developments in Mycotechnology.
Provides new techniques and innovative ideas in Fungal Biotechnology.
Addresses molecular diagnosis of Mycotoxins, soil microbes and Ectomycorrhizal Fungi.
Includes the role of type culture collection in mycological research and applications, e.g., drug discovery from fungi.
Deals with the role of Fungal Chitinases.
Focuses on strategic role of AMF in agro-ecosystem and disease control.
Contains database of PCR Primers for Phyto-pathogenic fungi."
