Fungal Biotechnology

Description

Fungal Biotechnology is an important publication representing these advances and multiple roles played by fungi. This includes mostly industrial applications of fungi for the production of pigments, citric acid and vitamins, beneficial effects of mycorrhizal fungi, mycoviruses, biotransformation, and also various health implications. All aspects of cultivating fungi together with products and processes derived from such cultures. Fungi exhibit a wide rangeof biosynthetic and biodegradative activities. These species impact us in diverse ways, such as generating the food we eat and drink, providing life-saving pharmaceutical agents, and are sources of enzymes; and yet they adversely affect the structural integrity of our buildings, poison us, cause common mycoses and in not so rare cases can kill us, and they are the principal group of microbes responsible for plant diseases that threaten global food security. The present book provides information about contemporary biological research and will give a sense of the importance of plants in world. This book would be very useful for researchers, teachers and students studying mycology.