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.
1. Fungal biotechnology: An overview
2. Production of organic acids by filamentous fungi
3. Production of heterologous proteins in filamentous fungi
4. Synthetic biology approaches to engineer fungi for the production of specialty chemicals
5. Fungal enzymes: Applications and market trends
6. Fungal synthesis of nanoparticles
7. Engineered living materials based on fungi
8. Resources for analysis & visualization of multi-omics data
9. Fungal single cell proteins
10. Traditional fermented foods using fungi
11. Biopharmaceuticals from filamentous fungi
12. Fungal glycoproteins in biomedical research
13. Bioactive alkaloids from fungi
14. Industrial biotransformations using fungi
15. Fungal contamination of food and pharmaceuticals
16. Properties and applications of fungal polysaccharides
17. Biotechnological approaches in the production of fungal pigments
18. Lignocellulosic waste for the production of flavours by fungi and their enzymes
19. Fungal phytohormones
20. Current trends on the use of VAM fungi as biofertilizer
21. Fungal entomopathogens for sustainable agriculture
22. Weed control with Mycoherbicides
23. RNA silencing approach for the control of fungal pathogens
24. Filamentous fungi in valorization of pollutants from aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem
25. Fungi in solid waste management and material recycling
26. Mycopackaging approaches towards environmental protection
27. Fungi as potent bioresource for biofuel production
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).
