Overview
- Broadens your understanding of fungal communities from diverse environmental habitats by providing the most up-to-date developments in mycological research
- Maximizes reader insights into the role of fungi in sustainable agriculture, including their ability to promote plant growth, enhance crop yield, and increase soil fertility through plant growth promoting (PGP) mechanisms
- Provides knowledge about beneficial fungi and fungi products for sustainable future developments
Part of the book series: Fungal Biology (FUNGBIO)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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About this book
Interest in the exploration of fungal diversity has been spurred by the fact that fungi perform numerous functions integral in sustaining the biosphere, ranging from nutrient cycling to environmental detoxification, which involves processes like augmentation, supplementation, and recycling of plant nutrients--a particularly important process in sustainable agriculture. Fungal communities from natural and extreme habitats help promote plant growth, enhance crop yield, and soil fertility via direct or indirect plant growth promoting (PGP) mechanisms of solubilization of phosphorus, potassium, and zinc, production of ammonia, hydrogen cyanides, phytohormones, Fe-chelating compounds, extracellular hydrolytic enzymes, and bioactive secondary metabolites. These PGP fungi could be used as biofertilizers, bioinoculants, and biocontrol agents in place of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in eco-friendly manners for sustainable agriculture and environments.
Along with agricultural applications, medically important fungi play significant role for human health. Fungal communities are useful for sustainable environments as they are used for bioremediation which is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrading waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes. Fungi could be used as mycoremediation for the future of environmental sustainability. Fungi and fungal products have the biochemical and ecological capability to degrade environmental organic chemicalsand to decrease the risk associated with metals, semi-metals, and noble metals either by chemical modification or by manipulating chemical bioavailability.
The two volumes of "Recent Trends in Mycological Research” aim to provide an understanding of fungal communities from diverse environmental habitats and their potential applications in agriculture, medical, environments and industry. The books are useful to scientists, researchers, and students involved in microbiology, biotechnology, agriculture, molecular biology, environmental biology and related subjects.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recent Trends in Mycological Research
Book Subtitle: Volume 2: Environmental and Industrial Perspective
Editors: Ajar Nath Yadav
Series Title: Fungal Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68260-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68259-0Published: 15 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68262-0Published: 16 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68260-6Published: 14 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2198-7777
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7785
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 532
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mycology, Agriculture, Sustainable Development, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology