Filamentous fungi have been harnessed for the production of organic acids, antibiotics,
drugs, and enzymes for the last 100 years. Fungal biotechnology is currently undergoing a …

Highlights•Mushroom production to increase in developing countries-start-up costs+
agricultural residues.•Submerged mycelia production to increase in developed countries …

Mushrooms are rapidly becoming recognized as a promising source of novel proteins.
Several proteins showing unique features have been isolated, including lectins …

The EUROFUNG network is a virtual centre of multidisciplinary expertise in the field of fungal
biotechnology. The first academic-industry Think Tank was hosted by EUROFUNG to …

Enzymes from filamentous fungi are already widely exploited, but new applications for
known enzymes and new enzymic activities continue to be found. In addition, enzymes from …

Fungi are now widely used in industrial biotechnology, for example, as production hosts for
technical and food and feed processing enzymes, as gene donors for such enzymes, as …

Filamentous fungi have found application in many technologies. These include the
production of antibiotics, enzymes, organic acids, foods and beverages, and …

Numerous eukaryotic expression systems have been developed for use in filamentous fungi
since these microorganisms have a high capacity for protein production and secretion …

Enzymes have played a crucial role in mankind's challenges to use different types of
biological systems for a diversity of applications. They are proteins that break down and …

The Handbook of Fungal Biotechnology offers the newest developments from the frontiers of
fungal biochemical and molecular processes and industrial and semi-industrial applications …