Marine Fungi - and Fungal-like Organisms (Hardcover)

Marine fungi play a major role in marine and mangrove ecosystems. Understanding how higher fungi with their spectrum of cellulolytic and ligninolytic enzymes degrade wood tissue, while labyrinthuloids and thraustochytrids further contribute to the dissolved organic matter entering the open ocean is essential to marine ecology. This work provides an overview of marine fungi including morphology and ultrastructure, phylogeny, biogeography and biodiversity. Increasingly, biotechnology is also turning to these organisms to develop new bioactive compounds and to address problems such as decomposition of materials in the ocean and bioremediation of oil spills. These potential applications of marine fungi are also treated. In the light of massive marine oil spills in the past years, the importance of understanding marine fungi and their role in the food chain cannot be underestimated.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Marine and Freshwater Botany
Release date:	August 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	E B Gareth Jones • Ka-Lai Pang
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	543
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-026398-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Mycology, fungi (non-medical) Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Microbiology (non-medical) > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Hydrobiology > Marine biology Promotions
LSN:	3-11-026398-X
Barcode:	9783110263985

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