Fungal biotechnology in agricultural, food, and environmental applications / edited by Dilip K. Arora ; associate editors, Paul D. Bridge, Deepak Bhatnagar.

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.

"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.