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Thermophilic Moulds in Biotechnology

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Abstract

Geographically, thermophilic fungi occupy world-wide distribution although existence of their gene pools is still uncertain (17, 18). Prevalence of strains that may pose health hazards and carry out beneficial activities in the humid tropics is only scanty because most distributional investigations are based on local substrates from limited resource pools. Considering the fact that a small group such as this has already yielded strains of biotechnological relevance, it is only appropriate that systematic search for their biodiversity and conservation of gene pool is initiated. Furthermore, these strains represent uppermost limit for the existence of eukaryotic life, and therefore, they are interesting tools for fundamental research to explain the basis of thermophilism in eukaryotes.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, CBSH, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India

    B. N. Johri

  2. Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

    T. Satyanarayana

  3. Department of General Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    J. Olsen

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Johri, B.N., Satyanarayana, T., Olsen, J. (1999). Future Perspectives. In: Johri, B.N., Satyanarayana, T., Olsen, J. (eds) Thermophilic Moulds in Biotechnology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9206-2_14

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