The present book, “Sustainable Utilization of Fungi in Agriculture and Industry” covers the investigations on different fungal microorganisms (filamentous fungi and yeast) and their potential application in the production of industrial enzymes, organic acids (citric acid, lactic acid, etc), biofuel (ethanol, H2 gas) and bioactive compounds for diverse processes targeted at agriculture, bioremediation, industries and therapeutics.
Each chapter is well written and explained so that the reader is given an up-to-date and detailed account of knowledge on fungal microbes and their sustainable utilization in agriculture, white biotechnology, and other innumerable industrial applications
Although fungi are relatively understudied, they are an essential, fascinating and biotechnologically useful group of organisms with an incredible biotechnological potential for industrial exploitation. Hyde and co-workers (Fungal Diversity, 2019, 97: 1-136) have recently detailed 50 ways in which fungi can be exploited. As compared to other biological systems (eg. plants), fungi have the great advantage that they can be grown in large bioreactors at an industrial scale.
The laudable attempt of editing a book entitled ‘Sustainable Utilization of Fungi in Agriculture and industry’ is a welcome step by Dr.S. Ajmera and others. This book comprises 22 chapters, on various aspects of fungi, contributed by those engaged in teaching mycology/microbiology/biotechnology in various academic institutions. Graduate and post-graduate students, scholars and teachers in broad areas of botany, microbiology, biotechnology and Life Sciences will find this book useful.
About the editors:
Dr M Ramchander Goud is an Assistant Professor working in the Department of Biochemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda, Telangana State, India. He has about 20 years of teaching experience and has published more than 200 research articles in National and International Journals. His areas of Interest include Nanotechnology, Bioenergy and Bioinformatics.
Prof. B. Bhima, joined Osmania University services as Assistant Professor in 2004 and completed Ph.D. (2009) in Microbiology from Osmania University. He has 20 years of teaching experience and research experience. Prof. Bhima published 40 research articles, 8 book chapters, 1 book. He is a recipient of several awards such as HUPO Young Scientist Award-2007 by Human Proteome Organization, SAB-Young Scientist Award-2012 by the Society for Applied Biotechnology, Research Excellence award 2013 during Indo global education summit, by Indus foundation, Young Researcher Award by OMICS group, USA and International travel grant award (2007) by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India. Prof. Bhima is a life member of ISCA, AMI, BRSI, PAi, MSI and SAB. He has successfully completed 6 research projects of national funding agencies and 2 are ongoing which are funded by DST-PURSE and ICMR. Honored with the meritorious teacher award on 5th September, 2015 and in the year 2018, he was awarded Young Investigator Award by Probiotic Association of India at AIIMS, New Delhi from. He has established a research centre, ‘Centre for Microbial and Fermentation Technology’ (CMFT) under MHRD RUSA-2.0. As a Director of centre, he was successful in developing the centre with state-of-art modular lab with high end instruments. In 2022, he was meritoriously awarded the 1st Vice Chancellor Research Award. Prof. Bhima took charges as Principal of prestigious Nizam College, Hyderabad on 11th May, 2022.
Shantipriya Ajmera did her Post graduation and Ph.D. in Microbiology from Kakatiya University, Warangal. She has a bright academic record with research experience in Mycology working on the Coprophilous thermophilic fungi. She joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Palamuru University, Mahabubnagar (Telangana), India in 2017. Her research focuses on thermotolerant enzymes from thermophilic microorganisms and exploring fungal biomolecules in inhibiting the growth of multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria. Her research work has been published in National and International journals and presented in several National and International conferences. She is the recipient of the UGC Research fellowship Award-2013, Microbiologist Society India Young Scientist Award-2020 and honored as an Associate fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences 2019, life member of many academic bodies like Indian women scientist’s association (IWSA), Microbiologist’s Society India (MSI), The Association of Microbiologist’s India (AMI), Indian Academy of Neurology (IAN), Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) and Coordinator of Microbiologist’s Society India, Palamuru University, Telangana. Member of Board of studies (B.O.S) for (UG& PG) Dept. of Microbiology, Dairy Science, Biotechnology & Biochemistry, Palamuru University. She has been credited with two books, publishing more than 20 research articles and 12 book chapters.
Dr. M Krishnappa is a retired Professor in the Department of Botany, Kuvempu University. He first worked in Department of Botany, Mysore University from 1988 to 1998 and joined the Kuvempu University since. He has rich teaching and research experience in the area of Bacteriology, Seed pathology, Bryology, Pharmacology, microbiology and Mycology. He has guided 33 Ph.D., students, many of them studied on macro fungi, Dr. M Krishnappa established strong group on the area of molecular characterization of macrofungi, he and his group has collected 1000-macrofungal sporocarp and preserved in the departmental herbarium. He published more than 140 research articles in reputed, peer-reviewed journals and published books on Xylariales of Karnataka and Bryophytes of Chikkamagaluru. He also involved in the DBT sponsored BUILDER project on “Bioprospecting of Medicinal Plants of Karnataka” as a co-investigator. He has University administrative exposure as Registrar, Finance officer, and other offices of university.
Keywords:
Microbiome, Green synthesis, Antibiotics, Crop Yield and Productivity, Biopesticides, Biocontrol Agents, Biofertilizers, Ecosystem Regulators, Enzymes, Endophytic Fungi, Strain Development, Mycorrhiza, Nanotechnology, Phyto-Hormones, Solid State Fermentation, Bioremediation, Biomolecules, White biotechnology 10 Anticancer Properties, Heat-tolerant Enzymes
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