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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Special (Secondary) Metabolism
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Host-Fungal Interactions
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About this book
In the past half century, filamentous fungi have grown in commercial importance not only in the food industry but also as sources of pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of infectious and metabolic diseases and of specialty proteins and enzymes used to process foods, fortify detergents, and perform biotransformations. The commercial impact of molds is also measured on a negative scale since some of these organisms are significant as pathogens of crop plants, agents of food spoilage, and sources of toxic and carcinogenic compounds. Recent advances in the molecular genetics of filamentous fungi are finding increased application in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, and enzyme industries, and this trend promises to continue as the genomics of fungi is explored and new techniques to speed genetic manipulation become available.
This volume focuses on the filamentous fungi and highlights the advances of the past decade, both in methodology and in the understanding of genomic organization and regulation of gene and pathway expression.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Fungal Biotechnology for Industry, Agriculture, and Medicine
Editors: Jan S. Tkacz, Lene Lange
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8859-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47866-6Published: 04 June 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-4694-4Published: 21 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8859-1Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 445
Topics: Medical Microbiology, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Biochemistry, general, Chemistry/Food Science, general, Plant Pathology