Although single-cell oil (SCO) has been studied for decades, lipid production from
lignocellulosic biomass has received substantial attention only in recent years as biofuel …

Chemical taxonomy based upon the composition of lipids is widely applied to investigate
microbial communities and fatty acids have recently been employed to connect soil …

Since the publication of the first edition, important developments have emerged in modern
mushroom biology and world mushroom production and products. The relationship of …

Fungi play vital roles in all ecosystems, as decomposers, symbionts of animals and plants
and as parasites. Thus their ecology is of great interest. It has been estimated that there may …

Fourteen strains of aquatic hyphomycete species that are common on decaying leaves in
running waters were grown in liquid culture and analyzed for total ergosterol contents …

Background Ergosterol has been considered the “fungal sterol” for almost 125 years;
however, additional sterol data superimposed on a recent molecular phylogeny of kingdom …

Fifteen plants species were grown in the greenhouse on the same soil and sampled at
flowering to obtain rhizosphere soil and root material. In both fractions, the data on fungal …

Fumonisins are toxins associated with several mycotoxicoses and are produced by the
maize pathogen Gibberella fujikuroi mating population A (MP-A). Biochemical analyses …

Food webs in agricultural systems are complex and trophic linkages are difficult to track
using conventional methodologies. Here, we review three alternative approaches that allow …

A process for the heterotrophic or predominantly heterotrophic production of whole-celled or
extracted microbial products with a high concentration of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty …