Fungal biomolecules: sources applications and recent developments/ edited by Vijai Kumar Gupta, Robert Ludwig Mach, S Sreenivasaprasad

Contributors ix Foreword xiii Preface xvii Section 1 Fungi as cell factories 1 Chapter 1 Fungal biofilms: An overview 3 Virginia Medeiros de Siqueira Chapter 2 Fungal biomolecules for the food industry 11 Quang D. Nguyen, Erika Bujna, Gabriella Styevko, Judit M. Rezessy-Szabo and Agoston Hoschke Chapter 3 Fungal biocatalysts in the textile industry: Whole?]cell systems in real textile wastewater treatment 39 Federica Spina, Valeria Tigini, Valeria Prigione and Giovanna Cristina Varese Chapter 4 Discovery of fungal enzymes and pathways 51 Aleksandra Mitrovic and Anton Glieder Chapter 5 Fungal laccase in the textile industry 63 Susana Rodriguez?]Couto Section 2 Production of recombinant peptides 73 Chapter 6 Lignocellulose?]degrading enzymes: An overview of the global market 75 Paula M. D. Jaramillo, Helder A. R. Gomes, Antonielle V. Monclaro, Caio O. G. Silva and Edivaldo X. F. Filho Chapter 7 Recent advancements in the role of volatile organic compounds from fungi 87 Lourdes Macias?]Rodriguez, Hexon Angel Contreras?]Cornejo, Jesus Salvador Lopez?]Bucio and Jose Lopez?]Bucio Chapter 8 Peptaibiotics and peptaibols from fungi 101 Susanne Zeilinger Section 3 Fungal secondary metabolites and synthesis 115 Chapter 9 Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles by fungi 117 Ana Olivia de Souza and Alexandre Gomes Rodrigues Chapter 10 Fungal biomolecules as modulators of growth and pathogenesis 137 Rajesh N. Patkar and Naweed I. Naqvi Chapter 11 Fungi as a source of antitumour agents 145 Shin Yee Fung and Nget Hong Tan Chapter 12 Fungal mycotoxins: an overview 153 Svetlana V. Malysheva, Jose Diana Di Mavungu and Sarah De Saeger Chapter 13 Fungal pigments: An overview 173 Marcela C. Pagano and Partha P. Dhar Chapter 14 An overview regarding bioherbicide and their production methods by fermentation 183 Rodrigo Klaic, Raquel C. Kuhn, Edson L. Foletto, Valeria Dal Pra, Rodrigo J. S. Jacques, Jerson V. C. Guedes, Helen Treichel, Altemir J. Mossi, Debora Oliveira, J. Vladimir Oliveira, Sergio L. Jahn and Marcio A. Mazutti Section 4 Regulation of fungal secondary metabolism 201 Chapter 15 The role of nutrients in fungal development and pathogenesis 203 YiZhen Deng, Fan Yang and Naweed I. Naqvi Chapter 16 Role of nitrogen sources in regulation of fungal secondary metabolism 213 Bidisha Sharma and Dhruva Kumar Jha Chapter 17 Regulatory genes in fungal secondary metabolism 225 Jaswinder Kaur and Catherine Collins Chapter 18 Fungal metabolic diversity 239 Andrei Stecca Steindorff, Gabriela F. Persinoti, Valdirene Neves Monteiro and Roberto Nascimento Silva Chapter 19 Secreted biomolecules in fungal plant pathogenesis 263 Neil Andrew Brown and Kim E. Hammond?]Kosack Section 5 Developments and advancements 311 Chapter 20 Fungal molecular taxonomy: an overview 313 Marcela C. Pagano and Luiz H. Rosa Chapter 21 Fungal biomolecules in wines and beer industries 323 Carlos Roberto Felix and Eliane Ferreira Noronha Chapter 22 Biosorption and bioaccumulation of chromium VI by different fungal species 333 Dhara Shukla and Padma S. Vankar Chapter 23 Fungal biomolecules in plant growth promotion 345 Hexon Angel Contreras?]Cornejo, Lourdes Macias?]Rodriguez and Jose Lopez?]Bucio Chapter 24 Fungal biomolecules and their implications 363 Andleeb Zehra, Manish Kumar Dubey, Arti Tiwari, Mukesh Meena, Punam Kumari, Vivek Kumar Singh, Vijai Kumar Gupta and R. S. Upadhyay Index 377