Frontiers in Industrial Mycology

By Gary Leatham

Book Overview

Frontiers of Industrial Mycology describes the present efforts underway to create a broad range of large-scale applications using filamentous fungi. Important and environmentally sound applications currently being developed include the use of fungi for novel *B-lactams in antibiotic production, biobleaching and the bioconversion of wood pulp, agricultural biotechnology for creating biological insecticides and herbicides, food fermentations, and the commercial raising of shiitake mushrooms, a growing and largely untapped market in North America. The topics discussed in this volume are on the cutting edge of industrial mycology. This book will thus benefit a wide range of professionals and academics in biotechnology, mycology, microbiology, plant science, entomology, and biochemistry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468471147
• ISBN13: 9781468471144
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"