The growing concern over the harmful effects of synthetic colorants on both the consumer
and the environment has raised a strong interest in natural coloring alternatives. As a result …

Highlights•Fungi can efficiently produce pigments and colorants for the food
industry.•Growing world awareness on the necessity of replacing the synthetic coloring …

Microbial pigments are gaining more attention in recent times due to their versatile
applications in the pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic, and textile industries. The development …

Salinity is one of the oldest and most serious environmental problems in the world. The
increasingly widespread salinization of soils and water resources represents a growing …

This new edition of Fungi in Ecosystem Processes continues the unique approach of
examining the roles of fungi from the perspective of ecosystem functions. It explores how …

"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

This review highlights the presence and ecological roles of fungi in lakes, and aims to
stimulate research in aquatic mycology. In the study of lentic systems, this field is an almost …

Molecular studies of salt tolerance of eukaryotic microorganisms have until recently been
limited to the baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and a few other moderately …

This study was intended to determine the osmoadaptation strategy of Hortaea werneckii, an
extremely salt-tolerant melanized ascomycetous fungus that can grow at 0–5.1 M NaCl. It …

Salterns are hypersaline extreme environments with unique physicochemical properties
such as a salinity gradient. Although the investigation of microbiota in salterns has focused …