Mycotechnology: Present status and Future Prospects

Mahendra Rai

ISBN: 9789390455836

318 pages

Description

Mycotechnology has a crucial role to play in the 21st century. Fungi are bioprotectors, bioremediators, bio-fertilizers, drug-producers and involved in everyday life. Mycotechnology: Present Status and Future Prospects includes current and rare topics on mycotechnology, such as, molecular techniques (for analysis of soil fungi, diagnosis of ochratoxin-A producing fungi, identification of ectomycorrhizal fungi), SPPADBASE, bioactive sesquiterpenes, mycological applications of Raman spectroscopy, etc.

About the Author

Mahendra Rai is Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology at Amravati University in Maharashtra, India. He published 270 research papers, more than 100 popular articles in Indian and foreign journals and more than 30 books from reputed publishers like Elsevier, Springer, CRC, Taylor and Francis and Scientific Publisher. He is a member of several scientific societies and have been a national Scholar for five years. He received several prestigious awards, including the father T.A. Mathias award (1989) from the All India Association for Christian Higher Education, and the Medini award (1999) from the Department of Environment and Forest, Government of India.

Table of Contents

Book Review

Molecular Methods for Analysis of Soil Fungi
Bioremediation of Aged Pentachlorophenol Residues by Trametes spp.
Penicillin Biosynthesis and Secretion: Precursor and Enzyme Localization
Current Trends in Molecular Diagnosis of Ochratoxin A Producing Fungi
Fungal Chitinases—An Overview on Regulation and Cloning
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Agricultural Ecosystem
Strategies for Control of Disease Caused by Different Species of Phytophthora Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
Fungal Culture Collections in the Mycological Work
Molecular Methods for the Identification of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi
SPPADBASE: The First On-Line Searchable Database of PCR Primers for Phytopathogenic Fungi
Claviceps: A Biotechnologically Exploited Fungus
Biotechnological Applications of Chitin and Chitosan of Microbial Origin: Progress and Future Perspectives
Biodiversity and Biotechnological Potentials of Fungi from the Marine Environment
Aeromycological Aspects of Mycotechnology
Bioactive Sesquiterpenes Produced from Fungi: Possibilities and Limitations
Mycological Applications of Raman Spectroscopy
Index