Agricultural and Industrial Applications

Stefanie Grüttner is a research associate at the University of Kiel, Germany. In her doctoral thesis, she was working on the regulation of gene expression in plant mitochondria. After completing of her doctorate in 2021, her research interest shifted to filamentous fungi with an emphasis on genome editing of the model ascomycete Neurospora crassa.Krisztina Kolláth-Leiß received her doctorate in 2015 at Kiel University, Germany. She is a teaching associate at the Botanical Institute and research associate in the Department of Botanical Genetics and Molecular Biology at the CAU zu Kiel. In her research, she investigates principles of polar growth in the model ascomycete Neurospora crassa.Frank Kempken is Director at the Botanical Institute and Head of the Department of Botanical Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of Kiel (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), Germany. His research interests are fungal transposons, genomics of marine fungi and auxin production of moulds. Frank Kempken was also an editor of a former Mycota edition.

• Chapter 1. Industrial Production by Filamentous Fungi: Organic Acids and Vitamins.- Chapter 2. Industrial Applications of Marine Fungi.- Chapter 3. Fungal Spoilage of Crops and Food.- Chapter 4. Ergot Alkaloids.- Chapter 5. Ectomycorrhizae for the Rescue: Ectomycorrhizosphere Signaling in Agroforestry and Afforestation.- Chapter 6. Your Death, My Life: Understanding the Success Story of Necrotrophic Plant Pathogenic Ascomycota.- Chapter 7. Dance Between Environment and Fungal Pathogens in the Rhythm of Climate Change.