Enhancing microbial lipids yield for biodiesel production by oleaginous yeast Lipomyces starkeyi fermentation: a review

L Zhang, JTE Lee, YS Ok, Y Dai, YW Tong - Bioresource technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The enhanced production of microbial lipids suitable for manufacturing biodiesel from
oleaginous yeast Lipomyces starkeyi is critically reviewed. Recent advances in several …

Filamentous fungi for future functional food and feed

PJ Strong, R Self, K Allikian, E Szewczyk… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Mushroom production to increase in developing countries-start-up costs+
agricultural residues.•Submerged mycelia production to increase in developed countries …

Employment of the CRISPR/Cas9 system to improve cellulase production in Trichoderma reesei

S Pant, P Nag, A Ghati, D Chakraborty… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Trichoderma reesei has been explored intensively in the laboratory and on an industrial
scale for its highly potent cellulase secretion machinery since its characterization over 70 …

The expanding CRISPR toolbox for natural product discovery and engineering in filamentous fungi

C Woodcraft, YH Chooi, I Roux - Natural Product Reports, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to May 2022 Fungal genetics has transformed natural product research by
enabling the elucidation of cryptic metabolites and biosynthetic steps. The enhanced …

[HTML][HTML] The ancient koji mold (Aspergillus oryzae) as a modern biotechnological tool

GM Daba, FA Mostafa, WA Elkhateeb - Bioresources and Bioprocessing, 2021 - Springer
Aspergillus oryzae (A. oryzae) is a filamentous micro-fungus that is used from centuries in
fermentation of different foods in many countries all over the world. This valuable fungus is …

Development of the CRISPR-Cas9 System for the Marine-Derived Fungi Spiromastix sp. SCSIO F190 and Aspergillus sp. SCSIO SX7S7

Y Chen, C Cai, J Yang, J Shi, Y Song, D Hu, J Ma, J Ju - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Marine-derived fungi are emerging as attractive producers of structurally novel secondary
metabolites with diverse bioactivities. However, the lack of efficient genetic tools limits the …

Developing Ganoderma lucidum as a next-generation cell factory for food and nutraceuticals

F Azi, Z Wang, W Chen, D Lin, P Xu - Trends in Biotechnology, 2023 - cell.com
Ganoderma lucidum holds a colossal reservoir of hydrolytic enzymes and therapeutic
compounds and can be a sustainable source of proteins and bioactive compounds. Its …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence of the Involvement of a Cyclase Gene in the Biosynthesis of Ochratoxin A in Aspergillus carbonarius

M Ferrara, A Gallo, C Cervini, L Gambacorta… - Toxins, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a well-known mycotoxin with wide distribution in food and feed.
Fungal genome sequencing has great utility for identifying secondary metabolites gene …

Prediction of effector proteins and their implications in pathogenicity of phytopathogenic filamentous fungi: a review

Y Wu, L Xie, Y Jiang, T Li - International Journal of Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plant pathogenic fungi encode and secrete effector proteins to promote pathogenesis. In
recent years, the important role of effector proteins in fungi and plant host interactions has …

[HTML][HTML] Current state and future directions of genetics and genomics of endophytic fungi for bioprospecting efforts

R Sagita, WJ Quax, K Haslinger - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The bioprospecting of secondary metabolites from endophytic fungi received great attention
in the 1990s and 2000s, when the controversy around taxol production from Taxus spp …