Overview
- Brings together the rapidly growing and often scattered information on fungal life in the whole range of extreme environments
- Explores habitats, biodiversity, ecology, evolution, genetics, biochemistry, and biotechnological applications in a collection of exciting reviews and original articles
- Comprehensive and reliable source of information on the recent advances and challenges of extremophilic fungal research, including possibilities for commercial use
- Discusses experimental design problems associated with extremophiles and their biotechnological implications
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Biodiversity, Ecology, Genetics and Physiology of Extremophilic Fungi
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Biotechnological Applications of Extremophilic Fungi
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Biosynthesis of Novel Biomolecules and Extremozymes
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About this book
Over the last decades, scientists have been intrigued by the fascinating organisms that inhabit extreme environments. These organisms, known as extremophiles, thrive in habitats which for other terrestrial life-forms are intolerably hostile or even lethal. Based on such technological advances, the study of extremophiles has provided, over the last few years, ground-breaking discoveries that challenge the paradigms of modern biology. In the new bioeconomy, fungi in general, play a very important role in addressing major global challenges, being instrumental for improved resource efficiency, making renewable substitutes for products from fossil resources, upgrading waste streams to valuable food and feed ingredients, counteracting life-style diseases and antibiotic resistance through strengthening the gut biota, making crop plants more robust to survive climate change conditions, and functioning as host organisms for production of new biological drugs. This range ofnew uses of fungi all stand on the shoulders of the efforts of mycologists over generations.
The book is organized in five parts: (I) Biodiversity, Ecology, Genetics and Physiology of Extremophilic Fungi, (II) Biosynthesis of Novel Biomolecules and Extremozymes (III) Bioenergy and Biofuel synthesis, and (IV) Wastewater and biosolids treatment, and (V) Bioremediation.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sonia Tiquia-Arashiro is an Environmental Microbiologist and a Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her research focuses on microbial ecology, physiology and diversity, especially regarding the nitrogen cycle and biodegradation of environmental pollutants and the biotechnological applications of microorganisms. She served as Director the Master of Science in Environmental Science Program from 2011 to 2017 and currently serves as Chair of Microbiology at UM-Dearborn. She is the regional editor of the journal Environmental Technology and leads a large research laboratory with many undergraduate scholars.
Martin Grube is a professor at the Institute of Biologie, Graz, Austria. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Graz in 1995 for his work on taxonomy of tropical lichens and lichen-inhabiting fungi. He pioneered molecular phylogenetics of lichens and also studied of algal selectivity in lichens symbioses. Later he focused on the diversity and roles of bacterial communities in lichen symbioses. His research interests also include diversity studies of rock-inhabiting extremotolerant fungi, biological soil crusts, plant-associated microbiomes, and slime molds.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fungi in Extreme Environments: Ecological Role and Biotechnological Significance
Editors: Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro, Martin Grube
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19030-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19029-3Published: 01 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19032-3Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19030-9Published: 22 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 626
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mycology, Microbial Ecology, Applied Microbiology, Microbiology, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology