Biotechnology of Fungal Genes

This volume focuses on filamentous fungi and highlights the advances of the past decade, both in methodology and in the understanding of genomic organization and regulation of gene and pathway expression. The approaches and techniques of molecular biology enable us to ask and answer fundamental questions about many aspects of fungal biology, and open the way to the directed manipulation of fungal genetics. Moreover, this book describes the development and advancement of fungal genes and the ways in which these are being exploited in species of economic importance either in biotechnology or in biochemistry.

Identification of Fungal Pathogenicity Genes by Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Transformation. The Genetics and Molecular Biology of Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Mucorales. Induction and Repression of Carbohydrate Degrading Enzymes in Fungi with Special Reference to their Coding Genes. Involvement of ADH1, IPT1 and PMT Genes in Candida albicans Pathogenesis. Enhanced Resistance to Fungal Pathogens in Plants through Selective Utilization of Useful Fungal Genes. Genes Encoding Penicillin and Cephalosporin Biosynthesis in Acremonium Chrysogenum: Two Separate Clusters are Required for Cephalosporin Production. A Review of the Fungal beta-Galactosidase Gene and its Biotechnological Applications. Trichoderma Genes Involved in Interactions with Fungi and Plants. Use of Luciferases as a Tool to Analyze Fungal Physiology in Association with Gene Transcription. Fungal Genes and their Respective Enzymes in Industrial Food, Bio-based and Pharma Applications. Fungal Metacaspases: An Overview. Signaling Molecules in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. Role of Pathogenic Genes of Fusarium oxysporum, Coding Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes during Wilt Infection in Plants. Engineering Fungal Expression Systems: Recombinant Expression of Two Class I Alpha-1, 2-Mannosidases from the Filamentous Fungus Aspergillus nidulans. PCR-Diagnostic of Septoria Nodorum Berk. Aggresivenes in Wheat Tissue. Detection of Toxigeneic and Pathogenic Fungi Targeting Metabolic Pathway Genes. Pathogenicity Genes in Entomopathogenic Fungi Used as Biopesticides.

Gupta, V. K.; Ayyachamy, M.