Fungal Nanotechnology: Applications in Agriculture, Industry, and Medicine pdf

Ram Prasad is Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh. He obtained his PhD (Microbiology) from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut for which he did the experimental work in School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He did his MSc in Life Sciences from School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi and has qualified CSIR-NET, GATE and ASRB-NET. He has seventy-five publications to his credit, which include research papers and book chapters at international and national levels. He also has five patents issued or pending and he is author/editor of three books. Dr Prasad has twelve years of research and nine years of teaching experience. He was awarded Young Scientist Award and Prof JS Datta Munshi Gold Medal. He has also been awarded FSAB fellowship by the Society for Applied Biotechnology in the field of Microbial Biotechnology. Recently, he has been awarded American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowships (2014) for Beginning Investigators and, is presently, Visiting Assistant Professor in Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, the USA.

Fungal Nanotechnology: Applications in Agriculture, Industry, and Medicine pdf by Ram Prasad

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.