Overview
- Enriches understanding of fungal diversity, encompassing current advanced knowledge of fungal communities
- Illustrates fungal production of important metabolites for pharmaceutical use
- Maximizes reader insights into industrial application of fungi for future sustainability, including their potential biotechnological applications in industry and allied sectors
Part of the book series: Fungal Biology (FUNGBIO)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Volume 1 of Industrially Important Fungi for Sustainable Development provides an overview to understanding fungal diversity from diverse habitats and their industrial application for future sustainability. It encompasses current advanced knowledge of fungal communities and their potential biotechnological applications in industry and allied sectors. The book will be useful to scientists, researchers, and students of microbiology, biotechnology, agriculture, molecular biology, and environmental biology.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Ajar Nath Yadav is a Dean Postgraduate Studies (Officiating) & Assistant Controller of Examinations at Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. He has 5 years of teaching experience as an Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) and 11 years of research experiences in the field of Microbial Biotechnology, Microbial Diversity, and Plant-Microbe-Interactions. Dr. Yadav has 201 publications, with ah-index of 50, i10-index of 132, and 6554 citations (Google Scholar- on 11/11/2020). Dr. Yadav is editor of 15 Springer-Nature, 06 CRC Press Taylor & Francis, 02 Elsevier, and 1 Wiley-Blackwell book. He has been serving as an editor and reviewer for different national and international peer-reviewed journals. He has lifetime membership of the Association of Microbiologists in India, and Indian Science Congress Council, India.
Dr. Neelam Yadav is currently working on microbial diversity from diverse sources and their biotechnological applications in agriculture and allied sectors. She obtained her post-graduation degree from Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Uttar Pradesh, India. In her credit 65 publications in different reputed international, national journals and publishers with h-index 24, i10-index 46, and 1724 citations (Google Scholar- on 11/11/2020). She is the editors of 02 books in Elsevier, 03 in CRC Press, Taylor & Francis and 09 in Springer Nature. She is editor/associate editor/reviewer of different international and national journals. She has the lifetime membership of the Association of Microbiologists in India, Indian Science Congress Council, India, and National Academy of Sciences, India.
Dr. Zeba Usmani is currently working as a Research Scientist in Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech). She completed her doctorate at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-ISM), Dhanbad, India. Her research focuses from doctorate include bio-based remediation of heavy metals from fly-ash for conversion into useful fertilizer, and uptake of heavy metals into terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. To her credit she has published many papers in peer-reviewed journals with impact factors, good few book chapters for publication houses of Elsevier and Springer, and a monologue for the Ministry of Environment and Forests. She is a reviewer for multiple research paper across multiple journals. Her RG Score is 22.78 with 23 peer-reviewed articles in well-reputed journals and 7 book chapters. She is a member of the Society for Bioinformatics and Biological Sciences (SBBS).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Industrially Important Fungi for Sustainable Development
Book Subtitle: Volume 1: Biodiversity and Ecological Perspectives
Editors: Ahmed M. Abdel-Azeem, Ajar Nath Yadav, Neelam Yadav, Zeba Usmani
Series Title: Fungal Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67561-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67560-8Published: 19 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67563-9Published: 20 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67561-5Published: 18 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2198-7777
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7785
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 589
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mycology, Biotechnology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Ecology, Plant Genetics and Genomics