Truffles are economically valued macro-fungi with numerous environmental, agricultural, and human health applications. They have attracted attention due to their ability to produce varied metabolites of basic, health and industrial significance....Daugiau...
Entomopathogenic fungi are economically important fungi from environmental, agricultural, and human health perspectives. They are an alternative to chemical pesticides. They can also be used as biostimulants and biological control agents for mosquit...Daugiau...
Macrofungi are an important component of the ecosystem and provide ecosystem services for the sustenance of the environment. The wide ecological spread of macrofungi gives them vast scope to interact with substrates and symbiotic partners....Daugiau...
Macrofungi are an important part of the ecosystem, just as are plants, animals and other microbes. They provide valuable nutrients, medicinal components, metabolites and biocomposites. Their wide distribution in different habitats is the repository...Daugiau...
Fungi are known for their bioactive metabolites and usefulness in sustainable biotechnology. Fungal processes and functions will also be useful in bioremediation (e.g. oil spills and bioleaching). Overall, this book provides value added information...Daugiau...
Mushrooms are of special interest as they are the source of bioactive metabolites of interest to remedy human lifestyle diseases especially cancers, cardiovascular and immune-stimulation. They are also a source of cosmeceuticals, flavours and scents...Daugiau...
Large scale cultivation of macrofungi is possible with fermentation, using easily accessible lignocellulosic agricultural residues utilising economical methods to generate substantial biomass, food and biofuels....Daugiau...
Covering fungal bioactive metabolites, with emphasis on those secondary metabolites that are produced by various endophytes, their pharmaceutical and agricultural uses, regulation of the metabolites, mycotoxins, nutritional value of mushrooms, prosp...Daugiau...
This book discusses techniques for inventorying and monitoring macrofungi, as well as the necessary steps needed for preservation and conservation. It explores how macrofungi, whether wild or cultivated, can be utilized as a nutritional source, as w...Daugiau...
The book is comprised of more than a dozen chapters on fungi from different substrates including fossilized leaves. It discusses association of fungi occurring on important plants, some animals, and saprophytic substrates. Besides the taxonomic info...Daugiau...
Examining the progress and shifts that have taken place towards understanding fungi, this volume examines most of the major groups, including Chytridiomycota, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota....Daugiau...
Fungi are known to produce low molecular weight compounds and several cholesterol-lowering ones like the statins. Compounds such as the cytochalasins, peptaibols, grisan and scirpene derivatives are found only in fungi. This volume intends to bring...Daugiau...
