Fungi in Extreme Environments: Ecological Role and Biotechnological Significance
Over the last decades, scientists have been intrigued by the fascinating organisms that inhabit extreme environments. These organisms, known as extremophiles, thrive in habitats which for other terrestrial life-forms are intolerably hostile or even
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gi in Extreme Environments: Ecological Role and Biotechnological Significance
Fungi in Extreme Environments: Ecological Role and Biotechnological Significance
Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro • Martin Grube Editors
Fungi in Extreme Environments: Ecological Role and Biotechnological Significance
Editors Sonia M. Tiquia-Arashiro Department of Natural Sciences University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MI, USA
Martin Grube Institute of Biology University of Graz Graz, Austria
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Preface
Over the last decades, scientists have been intrigued by the fascinating microorganisms that inhabit extreme environments including extreme temperature, pressure, salinity, pH, etc. They grow optimally under one or several of these diverse conditions for their growth and are termed as extremophiles, which include acidophiles, alkaliphiles, halophiles, psychrophiles, thermophiles, hyperthermophiles, radioresistant microbes, barophiles, and endoliths. They thrive in habitats that are intolerably hostile or even lethal to other life-forms. Based on technological advances, the study of extremophiles has provided ground-breaking discoveries that challenge the paradigms of modern biology. In view of the nearly unlimited reservoir of extremophilic organisms existing in nature and the exciting achievements of modern biotechnology, there remains an enormous potential waiting for further progress in synthetic biology, drug discovery, bioenergy, and bioremediation. It is envisaged that biotransformations employing extremophiles will be increas
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