Fungi are used in many industrial processes, such as the production of enzymes, vitamins,
polysaccharides, polyhydric alcohols, pigments, lipids, and glycolipids. Some of these …

Fungi are an essential, fascinating, and biotechnologically useful group of organisms with
an incredible biotechnological potential for industrial exploitation. Knowledge of the world's …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the process characteristics of fungal growth in
submerged cultures and its relationship to the kinetics of product formation with a focus on …

Fungi: 1, 2, 3,... 5.1 million species? Even scientists do not currently agree on how many
fungi there might be on the planet Earth but only about 120,000 have been described so far …

Fungi have a diverse spectrum of extracellular enzymes. In nature, extracellular enzymes
primarily serve to procure nutrients for the survival and growth of the fungi. Complex …

Filamentous fungi possess the extraordinary ability to digest complex biomasses and
mineralize numerous xenobiotics, as consequence of their aptitude to sensing the …

Fungi can be found in almost all types of habitats. Its several thousand species are very
diverse in morphological characters with plethora of secondary metabolites. These …

With the expanding population, the environment is changing greatly, and agriculture is one
of the most exposed sectors to these changes and faces a number of challenges like …

Higher fungi with greater than 70000 species are regarded as a rich source of various
natural compounds including terpenoids, the production of which represents a wide range of …

In our time, advances in biotechnology have enabled scientists to develop industrial
processes for manufacturing enzymes, organic acids, vitamins, antibiotics, and a range of …