Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Bioremediation Applications with Fungi

   • Necdet Saglam, Ozfer Yesilada, Semran Saglam, Elif Apohan, Mesut Sam, Sedef Ilk et al.

   Pages 1-37

3. Role of Phytochelatins (PCs), Metallothioneins (MTs), and Heavy Metal ATPase (HMA) Genes in Heavy Metal Tolerance

   • Khushboo Chaudhary, Swati Agarwal, Suphiya Khan

   Pages 39-60

4. Production of Bio-oils from Microbial Biomasses

   • Laura Bardi

   Pages 61-89

5. Mycoremediation of Agricultural Soil: Bioprospection for Sustainable Development

   • Jyotika Purohit, Anirudha Chattopadhyay, Mohan K. Biswas, Nirbhay K. Singh

   Pages 91-120

6. Bioremediation and Decolorization of Textile Dyes by White Rot Fungi and Laccase Enzymes

   • Ozfer Yesilada, Emre Birhanli, Hikmet Geckil

   Pages 121-153

7. Mycoremediation of Common Agricultural Pesticides

   • Chitra Pandey, Deepti Prabha, Yogesh Kumar Negi

   Pages 155-179

8. Bioremediation of Insecticides by White-Rot Fungi and Its Environmental Relevance

   • Debasish Mohapatra, Sakti Kanta Rath, Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra

   Pages 181-212

9. An Overview of Fungal Applications in the Valorization of Lignocellulosic Agricultural By-Products: The Case of Two-Phase Olive Mill Wastes

   • Rocío Reina, Mercedes García-Sánchez, Christiane Liers, Inmaculada García-Romera, Elisabet Aranda

   Pages 213-238

10. Fungal Conversion and Valorization of Winery Wastes

    • Albino A. Dias, Joana M. C. Fernandes, Rose Marie O. F. Sousa, Paula A. Pinto, Carla Amaral, Ana Sampaio et al.

    Pages 239-252

11. Biosorption of Dye and Heavy Metal Pollutants by Fungal Biomass: A Sustainable Approach

    • Himani Meena, Siddhardha Busi

    Pages 253-271

12. Application of Myconanotechnology in the Sustainable Management of Crop Production System

    • Deepanwita Deka, Jintu Rabha, Dhruva Kumar Jha

    Pages 273-305

13. Obligate Marine Fungi and Bioremediation

    • V. Venkateswara Sarma

    Pages 307-323

14. Fungal-Derived Chitosan-Based Nanocomposites: A Sustainable Approach for Heavy Metal Biosorption and Environmental Management

    • Subhaswaraj Pattnaik, Siddhardha Busi

    Pages 325-349

15. Mycoremediation Mechanisms for Heavy Metal Resistance/Tolerance in Plants

    • Poonam C. Singh, Sonal Srivastava, Deepali Shukla, Vidisha Bist, Pratibha Tripathi, Vandana Anand et al.

    Pages 351-381

16. Back Matter

    Pages 383-392

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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.

• Bioremediation
• Fungi
• Decolorization
• Soil pollution
• Nanotechnology
• Agricultural by-products
• Waste

• School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

  Ram Prasad

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.

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