TY - BOOK AU - Arora,Dilip K. AU - Bridge,P.D. AU - Bhatnagar,Deepak TI - Fungal biotechnology in agricultural, food, and environmental applications T2 - Mycology series SN - 0824747704 AV - TP248.27.F86 F87 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Marcel Dekker KW - Fungi KW - Biotechnology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; / Arnold L. Demain, Javier Velasco and Jose L. Adrio; -- 2. Phylogeny of the fungal kingdom and fungal-like eukaryotes; / Gerald Bills, Joseph W. Spatafora and Meredith Blackwell; -- 3. Biological activities of fungal metabolites; / Fernando Pelaez; -- 4. Cell cycle regulation in morphogenesis and development of fungi; / Xiang S. Ye; -- 5. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of filamentous fungi; / Jan S. Tkacz, Arlene M. Dahl-Roshak, Nageatte Ibrahim and Philip S. Paress; -- 6. Fungal Germplasm for drug discovery and industrial applications; / Toru Okuda, Katsuhiko Ando and Gerald Bills; -- 7. Expression of cosmid-size DNA of slow-growing fungi in Aspergillus nidulans for secondary metabolite screening; / Zhiqiang An, Guy H. Harris, Deborah Zink, Robert Giacobbe, Ping Lu, Rajinder Sangari, Gerald Bills, Vladimir Svetnik, Bert Gunter, Andy Liaw, Prakash S. Masurekar, Jerrold Liesch, Steven Gould and WilliamStrohl; -- 8. The isolation and structure elucidation of fungal metabolites; / Guy H. Harris; -- 9. PCR-based data and secondary metabolites as chemotaxonomic markers in high-throughput screening for bioactive compounds from fungi; / Marc Stadler and Veronika Hellwig; -- 10. Screening for biological activity in fungal extracts; / Marvin Schulman and Christine D. McCallum; -- 11. Sordarins : inhibitors of fungal elongation factor-2; / Juan Manuel Dominguez and Julio J. Martin; -- 12. Secondary metabolite gene clusters; / Yongqiang Zhang, Heather Wilkinson, Nancy Keller and Dimitrios Tsitsigiannis; -- 13. Genomics and gene regulation of the aflatoxin biosynthetic pathway; / Michael S. Price and Gary A. Payne; -- 14. Indole-diterpene biosynthesis in ascomycetous fungi; / Emily J. Parker and D. Barry Scott; -- 15. Loline and ergot alkaloids in grass endophytes; / Christopher L. Schardl, Jimmy D. Blankenship, Martin J. Spiering and Caroline Machado; -- 16. Biosynthesis of N-methylated peptides in fungi; / Till Hornbogen and Rainier Zocher; -- 17. Molecular genetics of lovastatin and compactin biosynthesis; / C. Richard Hutchinson, Jonathan Kennedy, Cheonseok Park, Karine Auclair, Steven G. Kendrew and John Vederas; -- 18. The Aspergillus nidulans polyketide synthase WA; / Isao Fujii, Akira Watanabe and Yutaka Ebizuka; -- 19. Pneumocandin B[subscript 0] production by fermentation of the fungus Glarea Iozoyensis : physiological and engineering factors affecting titer and structural analogue formation; / Neal Connors and David Pollard; -- 20. Strain improvement for the production of fungal secondary metabolites; / Prakash S. Masurekar; -- 21. Fungal bioconversions : applications to the manufacture of pharmaceuticals; / Michel Chartrain and Michel Sturr; -- 22. Metabolomics; / Jonathan Arnold, H.-B. Schuttler, D. Logan, D. Battogtokh, James Griffith, B. Arpinar, S. Bhandarkar, S. Datta, K. J. Kochut, E. Kraemer, J. A. Miller, A. Sheth, G. Strobel, T. Taha, B. Aleman-Meza, Jereme Doss, LaTreace Harris and Abassi Nyong; -- 23. Metabolic engineering of fungal secondary metabolit pathways; / Guang Yi Wang, R. David Laidlaw, Jessica H. Marshall and Jay D. Keasling; -- 24. Heterologous protein expression in yeasts and filamentous fungi; / Ningyang Zhang, Dayna L. Daubaras and Wen-Chen Suen; -- 25. Toxigenic fungi and mycotoxins; / Jeong-Ah Seo and Jae-Hyuk Yu; -- 26. Fungal secondary metabolites in biological control of crop pests; / Xingzhong Liu and Shidong Li N2 - "This single-source reference provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in industrial mycology - leading readers through the complex range of process involved in the discovery, characterization, and profiling bioactive fungal metabolites."--BOOK JACKET UR - http://www.e-streams.com/es0706/es0706_3281.html ER -