Overview

Frontiers of Industrial Mycology describes the present efforts underway to create a broad range of large-scale applications using filamentous fungi. Important and environmentally sound applications currently being developed include the use of fungi for novel *B-lactams in antibiotic production, biobleaching and the bioconversion of wood pulp, agricultural biotechnology for creating biological insecticides and herbicides, food fermentations, and the commercial raising of shiitake mushrooms, a growing and largely untapped market in North America. The topics discussed in this volume are on the cutting edge of industrial mycology. This book will thus benefit a wide range of professionals and academics in biotechnology, mycology, microbiology, plant science, entomology, and biochemistry.

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Author:   Gary Leatham
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.357kg
ISBN:  

9781468471144

ISBN 10:   1468471147
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   14 April 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Production of Specialty Mushrooms in North America: Shiitake and Morels.- 2. Food Fermentations: Mucorales in Ragi and Related Products.- 3. Genetic Manipulation of the ?-lactam Antibiotic Biosynthetic Pathway.- 4. New Antibiotics—Antifungals from Aspergillus.- 5. Heterologous Protein Expression in Filamentous Fungi.- 6. Application of Specific Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in World Forestry.- 7. The Use of Fungi in Pulping Wood: An Overview of Biopulping Research.- 8. Biological Bleaching of Kraft Paper Pulp.- 9. White-Rot Fungi in the Treatment of Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes.- 10. Entomopathogenic Fungi as Bioinsecticides.- 11. Role of Production Technology in Mycoinsecticide Development.- 12. Principles in the Development of Biological Control Systems Employing Trichoderma Species Against Soil-Borne Plant Pathogenic Fungi.- 13. Bioherbicides.- Species Index.

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...excellent, highly readable book...an excellent book that should be essential reading for all students of mycology and microbiology - Society for General microbiology Quarterlly; ...excellent, highly readable book...an excellent book that should be essential reading for all students of mycology and microbiology - Society for General microbiology Quarterlly

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