1st Edition

Biotechnology of Fungal Genes

Edited By V. K. Gupta, M. Ayyachamy Copyright 2012
    400 Pages 9 Color Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    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, K. Maruthachalam, Junhyun Jeon, Yong-Hwan Lee, and K.V. Subbarao
    The Genetics and Molecular Biology of Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Mucorales, Catalina Sanz, Mahdi Shahriari, and Arturo P. Eslava
    Induction and Repression of Carbohydrate Degrading Enzymes in Fungi with Special Reference to their Coding Genes, Pauline Walsh, Alan Hernon and Anthonia O’Donovan
    Involvement of ADH1, IPT1 and PMT Genes in Candida albicans Pathogenesis, M. Rouabhia and M. Ghannoum
    Enhanced Resistance to Fungal Pathogens in Plants through Selective Utilization of Useful Fungal Genes, B.K. Sarma, A. Singh, H.B. Singh, and R.S. Upadhyay
    Genes Encoding Penicillin and Cephalosporin Biosynthesis in Acremonium Chrysogenum: Two Separate Clusters are Required for Cephalosporin Production, Juan-Francisco Martín, Carlos García-Estrada, and Ricardo V. Ullán
    A Review of the Fungal beta-Galactosidase Gene and its Biotechnological Applications, Anne G. Lydon
    Trichoderma
    Genes Involved in Interactions with Fungi and Plants, M. Mukherjee
    Use of Luciferases as a Tool to Analyze Fungal Physiology in Association with Gene Transcription, David M. Arana and Jesús Pla
    Fungal Genes and their Respective Enzymes in Industrial Food, Bio-based and Pharma Applications, Marco van den Berg, Margot Schooneveld, Monica Vlasie, Andre de Roos, and Drew Smith
    Fungal Metacaspases: An Overview, Anthonia O’Donovan, Finola E. Cliffe, and Mary C. Shier
    Signaling Molecules in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, M. Miransari
    Role of Pathogenic Genes of Fusarium oxysporum, Coding Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes during Wilt Infection in Plants, V.K. Gupta, Maria Tuohy, and A. Manimaran
    Engineering Fungal Expression Systems: Recombinant Expression of Two Class I Alpha-1, 2-Mannosidases from the Filamentous Fungus Aspergillus nidulans, C. Joshua Eades, and William E. Hintz
    PCR-Diagnostic of Septoria Nodorum Berk. Aggresivenes in Wheat Tissue, I.V. Maksimov and A. Sh. Valeev
    Detection of Toxigeneic and Pathogenic Fungi Targeting Metabolic Pathway Genes, V. Mudili, S.C. Nayaka, H.S. Murali, and H.V. Batra
    Pathogenicity Genes in Entomopathogenic Fungi Used as Biopesticides, K.U. Devi, Annette Reineke, G. Sandhya, and P.A.A. Khan

    Biography

    Gupta, V. K.; Ayyachamy, M.