Trichoderma: Biology and Applications

By: Lea Atanasova and Bryan A Bailey and Scott E Baker and Yariv Brotman and Sergio Casas-Flores and Hexon Angel Contreras-Cornejo and Irina S Druzhinina and Fabian Glaser and Rita Gorsche and Oliver Grovel and Lorant Hatvani and Alfredo Herrera-Estrella and B A Horwitz and Walter M Jaklitsch and Sue Karagiosis and Charles M Kenerley and Idit Kosti and Laszlo Kredics and Svetlana Kryštofová and David Laughlin and Jose Lopez-Bucio and Astrid R Mach-Aigner and Robert L Mach and R L Melnick and Laszlo Manczinger and Artemio Mendoza-Mendoza and Mala Mukherjee and Prasun K Mukherjee and Randy Ortiz-Castro and Yves Francois Pouchus and Catherine Roullier and Nicolas Ruiz and Karina Petit and Monika Schmoll and Claire Sallenave-Namont and Rainer Schuhmacher and Matthias G Steiger and Martin Simkovic and U S Singh and Alison Stewart and Johanna Steyaert and Csaba Vagvolgyi and Walter A Vargas and Ludovit Varecka and Richard J Weld and Najam S Zaidi and Susanne Zeilinger

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Synopsis: Trichoderma spp. are biotechnologically significant fungi, being widely used both in agriculture and industry. These microbes are also a potential drug source of clinical importance. In recent years, driven by advances in genetics and genomics, research on these fungi have opened new avenues for its varied applications. Divided into three sections, covering taxonomy and physiology, interactions with plants and applications and significance, this book also discusses topics that have seen rapid developments in the recent years. Various aspects of Trichoderma like molecular taxonomy, sexual and asexual developments, secondary metabolism, beneficial interactions with plants, applications as cell factories and harmful interactions with humans are discussed. This book, thus, hopes to be an essential ready reference for researchers, students and people form industry as well.