Fungal Metabolites

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mérillon, Jean-Michel (Editor), Ramawat, Kishan Gopal (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Reference Series in Phytochemistry
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Biotechnology.; Bioorganic chemistry.; Plant biochemistry.; Proteins.; Plant breeding.; Mycology.; Bioorganic Chemistry.; Plant Biochemistry.; Protein Science.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

This handbook compiles authoritative information about fungal metabolites and their chemistry and biotechnology. The first in the reference work series “Phytochemicals”, and written by a team of international expert authors, this book provides reference information ranging from the description of fu...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Biosynthesis of the ergot alkaloids
• Toward awakening cryptic secondary metabolite gene clusters in filamentous fungi
• Fungal secondary metabolites - strategies to activate silent gene clusters
• Phytotoxic secondary metabolites and peptides produced by plant pathogenic fungi.