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By Kandikere R. Sridhar, Sunil Kumar Deshmukh
December 01, 2023
Macrofungi have significant importance in human health, particularly in nutrition, medicine, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and industries. They occupy a variety of ecosystems such as terrestrial (agricultural lands, forests and deserts), freshwater (bogs and marshes) and maritime (mangroves and ...
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By Sunil K. Deshmukh, Kandikere R. Sridhar, Hesham El-Enshasy
October 13, 2023
The discipline of mycology is a fascinating one. It has a major influence on the nutrition, health and environmental safety of mankind. Cultivation of edible and non-edible mushrooms for nutrition, pharmaceuticals, biopolymers and biocomposites will open up new avenues in research as well as the ...
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By Kandikere R. Sridhar, Sunil K. Deshmukh
September 25, 2023
Large scale cultivation of macrofungi is possible with fermentation, using easily accessible lignocellulosic agricultural residues applying economical methods to generate substantial biomass, food and biofuels. Bioconversion of lignocellulosic wastes by macrofungi generates value-added fungal ...
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By Kandikere R. Sridhar, Sunil Deshmukh
September 25, 2023
Large scale cultivation of macrofungi is possible with fermentation, using easily accessible lignocellulosic agricultural residues utilising economical methods to generate substantial biomass, food and biofuels. Bioconversion of lignocellulosic wastes by macrofungi generates value-added fungal ...
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By Sunil Deshmukh, Kandikere R. Sridhar, Susanna M. Badalyan
August 18, 2022
Traditional studies in mycology mainly deal with damage caused by fungi, for instance, diseases of plants, animal ailments, air-borne pathogens, decomposition of wood and production of mycotoxins in food. Applied mycology focuses on the fermentation of foods (flours, bakery products, cheese and ...
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By Kandikere R Sridhar, Sunil Deshmukh
March 26, 2019
Advances in Macrofungi: Diversity, Ecology and Biotechnology discusses the diversity and ecology of edible, toxic, medicinal and mycorrhizal macrofungi; the impact of ectomycorrhizal fungi in terrestrial ecosystems, ectomycorrhizal complex in Boreal forests and commercial application of Pseudotsuga...
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By Sunil K. Deshmukh, J. K. Misra, Jalpa P. Tewari, Tamas Papp
March 11, 2016
The book deals with the application of fungi and the strategic management of some plant pathogens. It covers fungal bioactive metabolites, with emphasis on those secondary metabolites that are produced by various endophytes, their pharmaceutical and agricultural uses, regulation of the metabolites,...
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By J. K. Misra, Jalpa P. Tewari, S. K. Deshmukh, Csaba Vágvölgyi
November 17, 2014
The book is comprised of more than a dozen chapters on fungi from different substrates including fossilized leaves. It discusses association of fungi occurring on important plants, some animals, and saprophytic substrates. Besides the taxonomic information, some ecological aspects like distribution...
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By J. K. Misra, J. P. Tewari, S. K. Deshmukh
January 17, 2012
The nanosciences encompass a variety of technologies ranging from particles to networks and nanostructures. For example, nanoparticles have been proposed to be suitable carriers of therapeutic agents whilst nanostructures provide suitable platforms and scaffolds for sub-micro bioengineering. This ...
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By J K Misra, S.K. Deshmukh
January 09, 2009
Mycologists now look at the genes of fungi to decipher many features that they have been studying in the past beyond just looking at the morphology and other such traits of these organisms. Fungi are also attracting the attention of scientists in various other disciplines. These include the search ...