MARINE FUNGI Biotechnology and Bioprospects

Preface

Part 1: Agricultural and Nutritional Applications

1. Marine Fungi as a Source of Bioactive Compounds for Use in Agriculture

Vívian N. Gonçalves, Débora L.C. Barreto, Natana Gontijo Rabelo, Nicole Carraretto Siqueira, Sara Lemes de Souza, Victor Pena Ribeiro, Charles L. Cantrell, Stephen O. Duke and Luiz Henrique Rosa

2. Using Zoosporic Fungi and Fungus-Like Organisms in Aquaculture

Natarajan Velmurugan, Yen-Ju Pan, Thossaporn Phatthongkleang, Lam Kong, Sheng-Yu Guo and Ka-Lai Pang

3. Pigments from Marine Fungi: A Sustainable Approach for Food Applications Industrial Applications

Maricarmen Iñiguez-Moreno

Part 2: Industrial Applications 

4. Marine Fungal Pigments: A Promising Source of Bioactive Hues for Industrial Applications

Mehak Kaur, Shubhajit Dhara and Mayurika Goel

5. Marine Fungal Hydrophobins and their Applications  

Catalina Landeta-Salgado and María Elena Lienqueo

6. Biosurfactants from Marine Fungi: Recovery and Applications  

Graciéle Cunha Alves de Menezes, Gabriela Sosa Benegas, Monelly da Silva Bernardo, Miguel Lucas Ribeiro de Oliveira, Michel Rodrigo Zambrano Passarini, Alysson Wagner Fernandes Duarte and Luiz Henrique Rosa

7. Marine Lichens: A Treasure Trove of Bioactive and Biotechnological Potential in Marine Fungal Symbiosis

Malshadi Ranasinghe and Udeni Jayalal

8. The Untapped Potential Arctic and Antarctica Fungi Bioremediation

Bhagyashree Bora, Takam Akash, Channakeshavaiah Chikkaputtaiah and Natarajan Velmurugan

Part 3: Bioremediation

9. Advances in Bioremediation Using Marine Fungi

Zarimah Mohd Hanafiah, Tuan Noraida Tuan Hamzah, Wan Hanna Melini Wan Mohtar and Wan Abd Al Qadr Imad Wan-Mohtar

10. Marine Fungi in Bioremediation for a Sustainable Ecosystem  

Sabrin R.M. Ibrahim, Hagar M. Mohamed, Mahmoud A. Elfaky and Gamal A. Moham

11. Marine Fungal Potential for the Bioremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Heavy Metals

Olguin, J., Barthelemy-Ake, S., Valdes, J. and Lopez, A.

12. Potential Utilization of Deepsea Marine Fungi in the Bioremediation of Crude Oil Spills in the Ocean

Romero-Hernandez L., Tezocotitla G., Yáñez-Ocampo G., Wong-Villarreal A. and Patricia Velez

13. Bioremediation of Textile Dyes by Marine-Derived Fungi

Neha Redkar and Cathrine Sumathi Manohar

Part 4: Future Directions

14. Applications of Deepsea Mycobiota: An Untapped Resource of Blue Biotechnology

Ivonne Rodríguez-Ramírez and Mónica Vallejo-Arróliga

15. Geomycology of Marine Environments: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

Sujata Dabolka

16. Role of Synthetic Biology in Marine Fungi

A. Sai Ramesh, T. Naveen Kumar, A.P. Roshan Gershom and L. Karthik

Biography

Kandikere R. Sridhar is an Adjunct Professor (Department of Biosciences, Mangalore University, India) and a Visiting Professor at NITTE (Deemed to be University), Mangalore, India. His research areas are the Diversity and Ecology of Fungi of the Western Ghats and maritime habitats. He was an NSERC fellow and visiting professor at Mount Allison University, Canada; the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research at UFZ and Martin Luther University, Germany; and the Centre of Biology, University of Minho, Portugal. He is a recipient of the Dr. Shome Memorial Award (2004), Vice President (2013), President (2018) of the Mycological Society of India (IMSI). He is a Fellow of the Indian Mycological Society, Kolkata (2014), Distinguished Asian Mycologist (2015), Outstanding Leader in Education and Research, Association of Agricultural Technology, Bangkok (2016), and Fellow of the Karnataka Science and Technology Academy, India (2023). He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of MSI (2019) and the Association of Fungal Biologists (AFB), India (2025). He has mentored 25 PhD theses, 5 MPhil theses, and 25 MSc projects (mycology, food science, and myriapodology). He was a UGC-BSR Faculty Fellow, India (2014−2017) and in the top 2% of scientists in the field of mycology (2020−2025). He has published over 600 research papers, edited 22 books, and reviewed over 200 research articles, 25 project proposals, 15 book proposals, and he has evaluated 25 PhD theses (Australia, India, Mauritius, and Thailand).

Sunil K. Deshmukh is a Scientific Advisor to Greenvention Biotech, Uruli Kanchan, Pune, India, and AGPharm Bioinnovations LLP, Patiala, Punjab, India. He is a veteran industrial mycologist who spent a substantial part of his career in drug discovery at Hoechst Marion Roussel Limited [now Sanofi India Ltd.], Mumbai, and Piramal Enterprises Limited, Mumbai. He has also served at the TERI-Deakin Nanobiotechnology Centre, New Delhi, and as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Deakin University, Australia. He has to his credit 8 patents, 158 publications and 28 books on various aspects of fungi and natural products of microbial origin. He is the president of the Association of Fungal Biologists (AFB) and a past president of the Mycological Society of India (MSI). Dr. Deshmukh is the Managing Editor of Mycological Spectrum, the official journal of the Association of Fungal Biologists. He has approximately four decades of research experience dealing with bioactives from fungi, including keratinophilic fungi. He has approximately four decades of research experience in getting bioactives from fungi and various aspects of keratinophilic fungi.