Contents

1. Understanding Mechanism of Fungus Mediated Nanosynthesis: A Molecular Approach Anal K. Jha, Kamal Prasad
2. Innovation of Strategies and Challenges for Fungal Nanobiotechnology Necdet Saglam, Ozfer Yesilada, Ahmet Cabuk, Mesut Sam, Semran Saglam, Sedef Ilk, Ezgi Emul, Pınar Aytar, Ekrem Gurel
3. Marine-derived Fungi: Potential Candidates for Fungal Nanobiotechnology Anjana K Vala, Hiral B Trivedi, Bharti P Dave
4. Green Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles by Fungi: Current Trends and Challenges Luciano Paulino Silva, Cínthia Caetano Bonatto, and Vera Lúcia Perussi Polez
5. Microbial Enzymes: Current Features and Potential Applications in Nanobiotechnology Mohammadhassan Gholami-Shabani, Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi, Zeynab Gholami-Shabani, Mehdi Razzaghi-Abyaneh
6. The Effect of Mycobiota on the Biointerface of Polyaniline SurfaceElena Binkauskiene, Vitalija Jasulaitiene, Ausra Selskiene, Albinas Lugauskas
7. Methods and Techniques of Synthesis and Evaluation of Nanoparticles Activity as Fungicides Youn Su Lee and I.S. Ahmed
8. Plant Fungal Disease Management using Nanobiotechnology as a Tool Sandra Pérez Álvarez, Norma Elena Leyva López, Jesús Méndez Lozano, Edgar Antonio Rodríguez Negrete, María Elena Santos Cervantes
9. Antifungal Products by Fungi in Food Nano-Packaging Arash Babaei, Mohamad Javad Akbarian, Samaneh Faraji
10. Fungal Nanoparticles: An Emerging Tool of Medical Biology Anurag Yadav, Amit Verma, Kusum Yadav
11. Intervention of Fungi in Nano-particle Technology and ApplicationsRamesh Raliya1, Vinod Saharan, Ramprakash Saran, Kailash Choudhary, Jagadish C. Tarafdar, Pratim Biswas
12. Microbial Laccases and Nanobiotechnology: Environmental Perspective Sunita J. Varjani
13. Polymer Inorganic Nanocomposites: A Sustainable Antimicrobial AgentsAyat F. Hashim, Mousa A. Alghuthaymi, Alexander Yu. Vasil'kov, Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam
14. Advances in Botanicals Formulations with Incorporation of Nanotechnology in Intensive Crop Management Pinki Bhandari, Megha Pant, P.K. Patanjali, S.K. Raza
15. Nano-biofungicides: Emerging Trend in Insect Pest ControlAtanu Bhattacharyya, Prabha Duraisamy, Marimuthu Govindarajan, Abdul A. Buhroo, Ram Prasad

About the Author:

Dr. Ram Prasad is Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh. Dr. Prasad has completed his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Microbiology, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, UP, India, in collaboration with School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. Dr. Prasad received his M.Sc. in Life Sciencesat JNUand was qualified CSIR-NET, ASRB-NET, and GATE. His areas of interest include plant microbe interaction, and agricultural and microbial nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has ninety five publications to his credit, including research papers and book chapters, five patents issued or pending, and edited or authored four books. Dr Prasad also has 10 years of teaching experience, was awarded Young Scientist Award (2007) and Prof. J.S. DattaMunshi Gold Medal (2009) by International Society for Ecological Communications; FSAB fellowship (2010) by Society for Applied Biotechnology; Outstanding Scientist Award (2015) in the field of Microbiology by Venus International Foundation; andwas awarded the American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowship, USA (2014) for Beginning Investigators. In 2014 Dr Prasad served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA.