Filamentous Fungi as Excellent Industrial Strains: Development and Applications, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X). This special issue belongs to the section "Fungi in Agriculture and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 425
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fungal biotechnology; fungal synthetic biology; genome editing; fungal biofactories; gene regulation; antifungals; plant biomass conversion; circular economy
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Interests: food fermentation; health; nutrition; filamentous fungi; antifungal proteins; mycotoxins; food sustainability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Filamentous fungi are well known for their ability to produce organic acids, primary and secondary metabolites, enzymes and other proteins with applications in many industrial fields, including food and feed, pulp and paper, detergent, textile, pharmaceutical or biochemical and biofuel industries, among others. Industrial strains are commonly obtained by classical (non-GMO) strategies. However, in the last decades, genetic engineering—including genome editing—has contributed enormously to the development of efficient production strains with several potential applications in industry.
This Special Issue will be dedicated to any type of study (research articles, reviews, brief reports, etc.) that addresses the improvement of filamentous fungi, either through classical or biotechnological techniques, aimed at developing and optimization of filamentous fungal strains for their application at the industrial level. We also welcome papers describing methodologies for the genomic modification of industrially relevant fungal strains.
Dr. Sandra Garrigues
Dr. Mónica Gandía
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fungal strain improvement
- classical strain development
- fungal biotechnology
- fungal synthetic biology
- fungal biofactories
- industrial applications
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