Overview

Frontiers in 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\beta\-lactams in antibiotic production, the use of fungi in biobleaching and the bioconversion of wood pulp, the use of fungi for agricultural biotechnology in creating biological insecticides and herbicides, the use of fungi in food fermentations, and the commercial raising of shlitake mushrooms - a growing and largely untapped market in North America. This book should be of interest to professionals and academics in the fields of biotechnology, mycology, microbiology, plant science, entomology and biochemistry.

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Author:   G. Leatham
Publisher:   Chapman and Hall
Imprint:   Chapman and Hall
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780412034619

ISBN 10:   0412034611
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   November 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Production of speciality mushrooms in North America: shlitake and morels - T J Leonard and T J Volk; Food fermentations: mucorales in ragi and related products - C W Hesseltine; Genetic manipulation of beta/lactum antibiotic biosynthetic pathway - P L Skatrud, J Hoskins, J S Wood, M B Tobin, J R Miller, S Kovacevic, C A Cantwell and S W Queener; New antibiotics - antifungals from Aspergillus - L D Boeck; Heterologuous protein expression in filamentous fungi - S F Covert and D J Cullen; Application of specific ectomycorrhizal fungi in world forestry - D H Marx, S B Maul and C E Cordell. Use of fungi in pulping wood: an overview of biopulping research - T K Kirk, R R Burgess and J W Koning, Jr; Biological bleaching of kraft paper pulp - I D Reid and M G Paice; White-rot fungi in the treatment of hazardous chemicals and wastes - R T Lamar, J A Glaser and T K Kirk; Entomopathogenic fungi as bioinsecticides - D W Roberts and A E Hajek; Role of production technology in mycoinsecticide development - C A Bradley, W E Black, R Kearnes and P Wood; Principles in the development of biological control systems: employing Trichoderma species against soil-borne plant pathogenic fungi - X Jim, C K Hayes and G E Harman; Bioherbicides - E E Trujillo.

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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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