Overview
- Editors:
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Ram Prasad
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School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
- Expanded discussion of fungal applications for environmental sustainability
- Volume 2 includes approaches to fertilization, decolorization, and discussion of marine fungi
- Offers additional discussion of fungal solutions for waste from agriculture, wineries, mills, and other industries
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xvii
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- Necdet Saglam, Ozfer Yesilada, Semran Saglam, Elif Apohan, Mesut Sam, Sedef Ilk et al.
Pages 1-37
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- Khushboo Chaudhary, Swati Agarwal, Suphiya Khan
Pages 39-60
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- Jyotika Purohit, Anirudha Chattopadhyay, Mohan K. Biswas, Nirbhay K. Singh
Pages 91-120
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- Ozfer Yesilada, Emre Birhanli, Hikmet Geckil
Pages 121-153
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- Chitra Pandey, Deepti Prabha, Yogesh Kumar Negi
Pages 155-179
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- Debasish Mohapatra, Sakti Kanta Rath, Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra
Pages 181-212
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- RocÃo Reina, Mercedes GarcÃa-Sánchez, Christiane Liers, Inmaculada GarcÃa-Romera, Elisabet Aranda
Pages 213-238
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- Albino A. Dias, Joana M. C. Fernandes, Rose Marie O. F. Sousa, Paula A. Pinto, Carla Amaral, Ana Sampaio et al.
Pages 239-252
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- Himani Meena, Siddhardha Busi
Pages 253-271
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- Deepanwita Deka, Jintu Rabha, Dhruva Kumar Jha
Pages 273-305
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- Subhaswaraj Pattnaik, Siddhardha Busi
Pages 325-349
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- Poonam C. Singh, Sonal Srivastava, Deepali Shukla, Vidisha Bist, Pratibha Tripathi, Vandana Anand et al.
Pages 351-381
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Back Matter
Pages 383-392
About this book
Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes. Volume 2 offers new discussion of remediation through fungi—or mycoremediation—and its multifarious possibilities in applied remediation engineering and the future of environmental sustainability. Fungi have the biochemical and ecological capability to degrade environmental organic chemicals and to decrease the risk associated with metals, semi-metals, noble metals, and radionuclides, either by chemical modification or by manipulating chemical bioavailability. Additional expanded texts shows the capability of these fungi to form extended mycelia networks, the low specificity of their catabolic enzymes, and their use against pollutants as a growth substrate, making these fungi well suited for bioremediation processes. Their mycelia exhibit the robustness of adapting to highly limiting environmental conditions often experienced in the presence of persistent pollutants, which makes them more useful compared to other microbes. Despite dominating the living biomass in soil and being abundant in aquatic ecosystems, however, fungi have not been exploited for the bioremediation of such environments until this added Volume 2. This book covers the various types of fungi and associated fungal processes used to clean up waste and wastewaters in contaminated environments and discusses future potential applications.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Ram Prasad
About the editor
Ram Prasad is Assistant Professor at the Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India. Dr. Prasad completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Microbiology, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, UP, India, in collaboration with School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He received his M.Sc. in Life Sciences at JNU and also qualified CSIR-NET, ASRB-NET, and GATE. His research interest includes plant microbe-interactions, sustainable agriculture and microbial nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has ninety five publications to his credit, including research papers & book chapters and five patents issued or pending, and edited or authored several books. Dr. Prasad has eleven years of teaching experience and he has been awarded the Young Scientist Award (2007) and Prof. J.S. Datta Munshi Gold Medal (2009) by the International Society for Ecological Communications; FSAB fellowship (2010) by the Society for Applied Biotechnology; Outstanding Scientist Award (2015) in the field of Microbiology by Venus International Foundation; and the American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowship for Beginning Investigators (USA, 2014). In 2014-2015, Dr. Prasad served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, USA.