About the Book
Section 1: Fungal Biotechnology and the Global Challenges
- Chapter 1: Fungal Biotechnology: Unlocking the Full Potential of Fungi for a More Sustainable World
Lene Lange, Jane Agger, Anne S. Meyer
- Chapter 2: Fungal Attack on Environmental Pollutants Representing Poor Microbial Growth Substrates
Dietmar Schlosser
- Chapter 3: The Biotechnology of Quorn Mycoprotein: Past, Present and Future Challenges
Jack A. Whittaker, Robert I. Johnson, Tim J.A. Finnigan, Simon V. Avery, Paul S. Dyer
- Chapter 4: The Current Biotechnological Status and Potential of Plant and Algal Biomass Degrading/Modifying Enzymes from Ascomycete Fungi
Ronald P. de Vries, AleksandrinaPatyshakuliyeva, Sandra Garrigues, ShebaAgarwal-Jans
Section 2: Developments in Key Enabling Technologies
- Chapter 5: Genetic Transformation of Filamentous Fungi: Achievements and Challenges
Alexander Lichius, Dubraska Moreno Ruiz, Susanne Zeilinger
- Chapter 6: Bottlenecks and Future Outlooks for High-Throughput Technologies for Filamentous Fungi
Kyle Rothschild-Mancinelli, S German, Mikael R. Andersen
- Chapter 7: Strategies and Challenges for the Development of Industrial Enzymes Using Fungal Cell Factories
José Arnau, Debbie Yaver, Carsten M. Hjort
- Chapter 8: Meeting a Challenge: A View on Studying Transcriptional Control of Genes Involved Plant Biomass Degradation in Aspergillus niger
Jing Niu, Arthur F.J. Ram, Peter J. Punt
Section 3: Towards Bioeconomy-Potential of Fungal Biotechnology
- Chapter 9: The Economic Potential of ArbuscularFungal Biotechnology in Agriculture
Maya Benami, YochaiIsack, Dan Grotsky, Danny Levy, Yossi Kofman
- Chapter 10: Molecular and Genetic Strategies for Enhanced Production of Heterologous LignocellulosicEnzymes
Sophie A. Comyn, Jon K. Magnuson
Section 4: Branching Out - Emerging Opportunities
- Chapter 11: Horizontal Gene Transfer in Fungi
Erin L. Bredeweg, Scott E. Baker
- Chapter 12: Spotlight on Class I Hydrophobins: Their IntriguingBiochemical Properties and Industrial Prospects
Paola Cicatiello, Ilaria Sorrentino, Alessandra Piscitelli, Paola Giardina
- Chapter 13: An Aroma Odyssey: The Promise of Volatile Fungal Metabolites in Biotechnology
Victoria L. Korn, Sally Padhi, Joan W. Bennett
- Chapter 14: Fungal Peroxygenases: A Phylogenetically Old Superfamily of Heme Enzymes with Promiscuity for Oxygen Transfer Reactions
Martin Hofrichter, Harald Kellner, Robert Herzog, Alexander Karich, Christiane Liers, KatrinScheibner, Virginia Wambui Kimani, René Ullrich
- Chapter 15: Progress and Research Needs of Plant Biomass Degradation by Basidiomycete Fungi
Miia R. Mäkelä, Kristiina Hildén, Joanna E. Kowalczyk, Annele Hatakka
- Chapter 16: Organic Acids in the TCA Cycle: The Building Blocks of the Future
J. Stefan Rokem
- Chapter 17: Opportunities for New Generation Ganodermaboninense Biotechnology
NishaGovender, Wong Mui-Yun, Robert Russell Monteith Paterson
- Chapter 18: Fungal Biotechnology in Space: Why and How?
Marta Cortesão, TabeaSchütze, Robert Marxc Ralf Moeller, Vera Meyer
About the Author:
Professor Helena Nevalainen is one of the pioneers in Fungal Biotechnology and has published widely on the topic. She has worked both in industry and academia in Finland and Australia, which has provided her a unique view of Fungal Biotechnology and challenges in the field globally. She has extensive experience from a number of Biotechnology Program steering committees and as an expert consultant to industry. She is currently Professor of Biotechnology at Macquarie University in Australia where she has acted as Director of Masters in Biotechnology Program and graduated several postgraduate students who have since moved on to leading positions nationally and internationally. She has active collaborations with several distinguished scientists and has also acted as an editor and guest editor in Fungal Biotechnology book series and specialist journals.
