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Recent Advancement in White Biotechnology Through Fungi - Volume 1: Diversity and Enzymes Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Recent Advancement in White Biotechnology Through Fungi - Volume 1: Diversity and Enzymes Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Fungal Biology
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White biotechnology, or industrial biotechnology as it is also
known, refers to the use of living cells and/or their enzymes to
create industrial products that are more easily degradable, require
less energy, create less waste during production and sometimes
perform better than products created using traditional chemical
processes. Over the last decade considerable progress has been made
in white biotechnology research, and further major scientific and
technological breakthroughs are expected in the future. Fungi are
ubiquitous in nature and have been sorted out from different
habitats, including extreme environments (high temperature, low
temperature, salinity and pH), and may be associated with plants
(epiphytic, endophytic and rhizospheric). The fungal strains are
beneficial as well as harmful for human beings. The beneficial
fungal strains may play important roles in the agricultural,
industrial, and medical sectors. The fungal strains and their
products (enzymes, bioactive compounds, and secondary metabolites)
are very useful for industry (e.g., the discovery of penicillin
from Penicillium chrysogenum). This discovery was a milestone in
the development of white biotechnology as the industrial production
of penicillin and antibiotics using fungi moved industrial
biotechnology into the modern era, transforming it into a global
industrial technology. Since then, white biotechnology has steadily
developed and now plays a key role in several industrial sectors,
providing both high value nutraceutical and pharmaceutical
products. The fungal strains and bioactive compounds also play an
important role in environmental cleaning. This volume covers the
latest developments and research in white biotechnology with a
focus on diversity and enzymes.
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