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Recent Trends in Mycological Research - Volume 2: Environmental and Industrial Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Recent Trends in Mycological Research - Volume 2: Environmental and Industrial Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Fungal Biology
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Fungi range from being microscopic, single-celled yeasts to
multicellular and heterotrophic in nature. Fungal communities have
been found in vast ranges of environmental conditions. They can be
associated with plants epiphytically, endophytically, or
rhizospherically. Extreme environments represent unique ecosystems
that harbor novel biodiversity of fungal communities. Interest in
the exploration of fungal diversity has been spurred by the fact
that fungi perform numerous functions integral in sustaining the
biosphere, ranging from nutrient cycling to environmental
detoxification, which involves processes like augmentation,
supplementation, and recycling of plant nutrients--a particularly
important process in sustainable agriculture. Fungal communities
from natural and extreme habitats help promote plant growth,
enhance crop yield, and soil fertility via direct or indirect plant
growth promoting (PGP) mechanisms of solubilization of phosphorus,
potassium, and zinc, production of ammonia, hydrogen cyanides,
phytohormones, Fe-chelating compounds, extracellular hydrolytic
enzymes, and bioactive secondary metabolites. These PGP fungi could
be used as biofertilizers, bioinoculants, and biocontrol agents in
place of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in eco-friendly
manners for sustainable agriculture and environments. Along with
agricultural applications, medically important fungi play
significant role for human health. Fungal communities are useful
for sustainable environments as they are used for bioremediation
which is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrading waste
contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into
non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes.
Fungi could be used as mycoremediation for the future of
environmental sustainability. Fungi and fungal products have the
biochemical and ecological capability to degrade environmental
organic chemicals and to decrease the risk associated with metals,
semi-metals, and noble metals either by chemical modification or by
manipulating chemical bioavailability. The two volumes of "Recent
Trends in Mycological Research" aim to provide an understanding of
fungal communities from diverse environmental habitats and their
potential applications in agriculture, medical, environments and
industry. The books are useful to scientists, researchers, and
students involved in microbiology, biotechnology, agriculture,
molecular biology, environmental biology and related subjects.
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