Grand Challenges in Fungal Biotechnology

Section 1: Fungal Biotechnology and the Global Challenges

- Chapter 1: Fungal Biotechnology: Unlocking the Full Potential of Fungi for a More Sustainable World

Lene Lange, Jane Agger, Anne S. Meyer

- Chapter 2: Fungal Attack on Environmental Pollutants Representing Poor Microbial Growth Substrates

Dietmar Schlosser

- Chapter 3: The Biotechnology of Quorn Mycoprotein: Past, Present and Future Challenges

Jack A. Whittaker, Robert I. Johnson, Tim J.A. Finnigan, Simon V. Avery, Paul S. Dyer

- Chapter 4: The Current Biotechnological Status and Potential of Plant and Algal Biomass Degrading/Modifying Enzymes from Ascomycete Fungi

Ronald P. de Vries, AleksandrinaPatyshakuliyeva, Sandra Garrigues, ShebaAgarwal-Jans

Section 2: Developments in Key Enabling Technologies

- Chapter 5: Genetic Transformation of Filamentous Fungi: Achievements and Challenges

Alexander Lichius, Dubraska Moreno Ruiz, Susanne Zeilinger

- Chapter 6: Bottlenecks and Future Outlooks for High-Throughput Technologies for Filamentous Fungi

Kyle Rothschild-Mancinelli, S German, Mikael R. Andersen

- Chapter 7: Strategies and Challenges for the Development of Industrial Enzymes Using Fungal Cell Factories

José Arnau, Debbie Yaver, Carsten M. Hjort

- Chapter 8: Meeting a Challenge: A View on Studying Transcriptional Control of Genes Involved Plant Biomass Degradation in Aspergillus niger

Jing Niu, Arthur F.J. Ram, Peter J. Punt

Section 3: Towards Bioeconomy-Potential of Fungal Biotechnology

- Chapter 9: The Economic Potential of ArbuscularFungal Biotechnology in Agriculture

Maya Benami, YochaiIsack, Dan Grotsky, Danny Levy, Yossi Kofman

- Chapter 10: Molecular and Genetic Strategies for Enhanced Production of Heterologous LignocellulosicEnzymes

Section 4: Branching Out - Emerging Opportunities

- Chapter 11: Horizontal Gene Transfer in Fungi

Erin L. Bredeweg, Scott E. Baker

- Chapter 12: Spotlight on Class I Hydrophobins: Their IntriguingBiochemical Properties and Industrial Prospects

Paola Cicatiello, Ilaria Sorrentino, Alessandra Piscitelli, Paola Giardina

- Chapter 13: An Aroma Odyssey: The Promise of Volatile Fungal Metabolites in Biotechnology

Victoria L. Korn, Sally Padhi, Joan W. Bennett

- Chapter 14: Fungal Peroxygenases: A Phylogenetically Old Superfamily of Heme Enzymes with Promiscuity for Oxygen Transfer Reactions

Martin Hofrichter, Harald Kellner, Robert Herzog, Alexander Karich, Christiane Liers, KatrinScheibner, Virginia Wambui Kimani, René Ullrich

- Chapter 15: Progress and Research Needs of Plant Biomass Degradation by Basidiomycete Fungi

Miia R. Mäkelä, Kristiina Hildén, Joanna E. Kowalczyk, Annele Hatakka

J. Stefan Rokem

- Chapter 17: Opportunities for New Generation Ganodermaboninense Biotechnology

NishaGovender, Wong Mui-Yun^, Robert Russell Monteith Paterson

- Chapter 18: Fungal Biotechnology in Space: Why and How?

Marta Cortesão, TabeaSchütze, Robert Marx^c Ralf Moeller, Vera Meyer