Novel applications for cellulases have reinitiated interest in the regulation of production of
these enzymes by the soft rot fungus Trichoderma reesei and related species. This paper …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the physiology and biotechnology of Aspergillus
species. The genus Aspergillus is found worldwide and consists of more than 180 officially …

Multicellular filamentous fungi have septal pores that allow cytoplasmic exchange, and thus
connectivity, between neighboring cells in the filament. Hyphal wounding and other stress …

Filamentous fungi are used for food fermentation and industrial production of recombinant
proteins. They also serve as a source of secondary metabolites and are recently expected …

The production optimization of α-amylase (EC 3.2. 1.1) from Aspergillus oryzae CBS 819.72
fungus, using a by-product of wheat grinding (gruel) as sole carbon source, was performed …

Exogenous thiamine regulates Aspergillus oryzae thiA, which is involved in thiamine
synthesis. One of the two introns in its 5′‐untranslated region (5′‐UTR) contains motifs …

Ascofuranone (AF) and ascochlorin (AC) are meroterpenoids produced by various
filamentous fungi, including Acremonium egyptiacum (synonym: Acremonium …

In industry, filamentous fungi have a prominent position as producers of economically
relevant primary or secondary metabolites. Particularly, the advent of genetic engineering of …

Fungal natural products comprise a wide range of bioactive compounds including important
drugs and agrochemicals. Intriguingly, bioinformatic analyses of fungal genomes have …

Based on the sequence information for the ω3‐desaturase genes (from Brassica napus and
Caenorhabditis elegans), which are involved in the desaturation of linoleic acid (Δ9, Δ12 …