Fungi are eukaryotic microorganisms that include both unicellular and multicellular species. They have a worldwide distribution and a wide range of applications in diverse sectors, from environmental, food and medicine to biotechnological innovations. Fungal biochemical genetics involves the study of the relationships between genome, proteome and metabolome, and the underlying molecular processes in both native and bioengineered fungi. This book provides a valuable resource on the challenges and potential of fungal biotechnology and related bioengineering and functional diversity for various industrial applications in the food, environmental, bioenergy and biorefining, and the biopharma sectors. In comparison to previous and related publications in the area of applied myco-biotech-engineering, this book bridges a knowledge gap in the areas related to prospects and investment as well as intellectual and technical issues. This book also provides information on recent commercial and economic interests in the area by juxtaposing the developments achieved in recent worldwide research and its many challenges.

Fungi are eukaryotic microorganisms that include both unicellular and multicellular species. They have a worldwide distribution and a wide range of applications in diverse sectors, from environmental, food and medicine to biotechnological innovations. Fungal biochemical genetics involves the study of the relationships between genome, proteome and metabolome, and the underlying molecular processes in both native and bioengineered fungi. This book provides a valuable resource on the challenges and potential of fungal biotechnology and related bioengineering and functional diversity for various industrial applications in the food, environmental, bioenergy and biorefining, and the biopharma sectors. In comparison to previous and related publications in the area of applied myco-biotech-engineering, this book bridges a knowledge gap in the areas related to prospects and investment as well as intellectual and technical issues. This book also provides information on recent commercial and economic interests in the area by juxtaposing the developments achieved in recent worldwide research and its many challenges.

Since ancient times microorganisms have proven themselves a protective warrior to fight against many problems in the favor of humankind and therefore their potential applications are expected to increase significantly in various area. Microorganisms are known to detoxify or magnify the toxicity of allelochemicals after their entry into soil, and thus influence allelopathic activities. There could be more than one mechanisms of action of such microbes affecting the fate of allelochemicals in soil. Therefore future allelopathy research should be designed to understand the interaction of allelochemicals with soil microbes. However, their significance in influencing allelopathic activity is largely not investigated in bioassays for allelopathy. In this book, therefore, an attempt has been made to focus mainly on this aspect of allelopathy where phytoxicity of invasive weed can be minimized by using beneficial rhizobacteria without having any harmful effects on non-target plants, soil and ecosystem. An approach has been made to cover all possible aspects of soil microbial ecology in allelopathic interactions which can provide a baseline for futuristic studies.