Fungal Nanotechnology: Applications in Agriculture, Industry, and Medicine

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Fungal nanotechnology has great prospects for developing new products with industrial, agricultural, medicinal, and consumer applications in a wide range of sectors. The fields of chemical engineering, agri-food, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and medical device development all employ fungal products, with fungal nanomaterials currently used in applications ranging from drug development to the food industry and agricultural biotechnology. Fungal agents are an environmentally friendly, clean, non‐toxic agent for the synthesis of metal nanoparticles and employ both intracellular and extracellular methods. The simplicity of scaling up and downstream processing and the presence of fungal mycelia which afford an increased surface area provide key advantages. In addition, the large spectrum of synthesized nanoparticle morphologies and the substantially faster biosynthesis rate in cell-free filtrate (due to the higher amount of proteins secreted in fungi) make this a particularly enticing route. Understanding the diversity of fungi in assorted ecosystems, as well as their interactions with other microorganisms, animals, and plants, underpins real and innovative technological developments and the applications of metal nanoparticles in many disciplines including agriculture, catalysis, and biomedical biosensors. Importantly, biogenic fungal nanoparticles show significant synergistic characteristics when combined with antibiotics and fungicides to offer substantially greater resistance to microbial growth and applications in nanomedicine ranging from topical ointments and bandages for wound healing to coated stents. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Fungal Nanotechnology: A Pandora to Agricultural Science and Engineering (Mugdha Rao, Babita Jha, Anal K. Jha, Kamal Prasad)....Pages 1-33 Agriculture Applications of Entomopathogenic Fungi Using Nanotechnology (Sandra Pérez Álvarez, Marco Antonio Magallanes Tapia, Karel Ismar Acosta Pérez, Amaury Méndez Guerrero)....Pages 35-53 Fungi as Ecosynthesizers for Nanoparticles and Their Application in Agriculture (Khamis Youssef, Ayat F. Hashim, Ahmed Hussien, Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam)....Pages 55-75 Myconanotechnology in Agriculture (Sairengpuii Hnamte, Busi Siddhardha, V. Venkateswara Sarma)....Pages 77-88 Fungus-Mediated Bioleaching of Metallic Nanoparticles from Agro-industrial By-Products (Madan L. Verma)....Pages 89-102 Synthesis and Applications of Nanofungicides: A Next-Generation Fungicide (Sonu Kumari, Suphiya Khan)....Pages 103-118 Enzymes and Nanoparticles Produced by Microorganisms and Their Applications in Biotechnology (Emad Abada, Zarraq Al-Faifi, Mohamed Osman)....Pages 119-150 Biological Nanoparticles: Optical and Photothermal Properties (Aditya Saran, Rajender Boddula, Sharda Ranjan Sharan)....Pages 151-170 Biogenic Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles and Their Applications in Medicine (Manjit K. Selwal, Krishan K. Selwal)....Pages 171-187 Fungal Bionanotechnology, When Knowledge Merge into a New Discipline to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance (Juan Bueno)....Pages 189-206 Fungal Nanotechnology and Biomedicine (Niraj Kumari, Anal K. Jha, K. Prasad)....Pages 207-233 Myconanotechnology to Treat Infectious Diseases: A Perspective (Ernestina Castro-Longoria, Diana Garibo-Ruiz, Sandy Martínez-Castro)....Pages 235-261 Nanobiotechnology Applications in Special Reference to Fungi (Safiye Elif Korcan, Muhsin Konuk)....Pages 263-287 Back Matter ....Pages 289-295