Springer Fungi in Fuel Biotechnology (Fungal Biology)

Due to the huge quantity and diverse nature of their metabolic pathways, fungi have great potential to be used for the production of different biofuels such as bioethanol, biobutanol, and biodiesel. This book presents recent advances, as well as challenges and promises, of fungal applications in biofuel production, subsequently discussing plant pathogenic fungi for bioethanol and biodiesel production, including their mechanisms of action.  Additionally, this book reviews biofuel production using plant endophytic fungi, wood-rotting fungi, fungal biocontrol agents, and gut fungi, and it investigates highly efficient fungi for biofuel production and process design in fungal-based biofuel production systems. Finally, life cycle assessment of fungal-based biofuel production systems are discussed in this volume. From the Back Cover Due to the huge quantity and diverse nature of their metabolic pathways, fungi have great potential to be used for the production of different biofuels such as bioethanol, biobutanol, and biodiesel. This book presents recent advances, as well as challenges and promises, of fungal applications in biofuel production, subsequently discussing plant pathogenic fungi for bioethanol and biodiesel production, including their mechanisms of action.  Additionally, this book reviews biofuel production using plant endophytic fungi, wood-rotting fungi, fungal biocontrol agents, and gut fungi, and it investigates highly efficient fungi for biofuel production and process design in fungal-based biofuel production systems. Finally, life cycle assessment of fungal-based biofuel production systems are discussed in this volume. About the Author Dr. Gholamreza Salehi Jouzani is a Professor of Microbial Biotechnology at the Microbial Biotechnology Department of Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute of Iran (ABRII). His research focus is agricultural microbial bio-products and biorefinery, including biofuels from biomass, biocompost, biopesticides, biofertilizers, and probiotics. Professor Salehi Jouzani has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, achieved more than 8 patents, and transferred two technologies to the private sector (h-index: 20, i10-index: 32). His publications have received 2221 citations. He has supervised more than 60 graduate students. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of several reputed journals including the Bioengineered (Taylor & Francis Online), Iranian Journal of Biotechnology, and Iranian Journal of Microbiology. Dr. Meisam Tabatabaei is an Associate Professor of Environmental Biotechnology (Universiti Teknologi MARA-UiTM, Malaysia) and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Biofuel Research Journal (BRJ) in Canada. Meisam has been working closely with the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) to promote waste-oriented biofuels in the developing world. Since 2016, he has been the lead collaborator of the Lancet Commission on Public Health and Climate Change (UCL, UK) and has published over 250 publications including original research papers and reviews in journals such as The Lancet (Impact Factor: 59.102), Progress in Energy and Combustion Sciences (Impact Factor: 26.467), Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (Impact Factor: 10.556), etc. (Citations: >7350, h-index: 43, i10 index: 147) He is currently also a Guest Professor at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport (Vietnam). Dr. Tabatabaei has been listed on the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers List (Top 1% scientists in the world) in Engineering Category since 2017. He is the Editor of the Book Volumes "Biogas: Fundamentals, Process, and Operation” and "Biodiesel: from Production to Combustion" which have been published by Springer Nature in 2018 and is on the Editorial/Advisory Board of International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (Springer), Data In Brief (Elsevier), MethodsX (Elsevier), and Energy Source