The amazing potential of fungi: 50 ways we can exploit fungi industrially
Résumé
Fungi are an understudied, biotechnologically valuable group of organisms. Due to the immense range of habitats that
fungi inhabit, and the consequent need to compete against a diverse array of other fungi, bacteria, and animals, fungi have
developed numerous survival mechanisms. The unique attributes of fungi thus herald great promise for their application in
biotechnology and industry. Moreover, fungi can be grown with relative ease, making production at scale viable. The
search for fungal biodiversity, and the construction of a living fungi collection, both have incredible economic potential in
locating organisms with novel industrial uses that will lead to novel products. This manuscript reviews fifty ways in which
fungi can potentially be utilized as biotechnology. We provide notes and examples for each potential exploitation and give
examples from our own work and the work of other notable researchers. We also provide a flow chart that can be used to
convince funding bodies of the importance of fungi for biotechnological research and as potential products. Fungi have
provided the world with penicillin, lovastatin, and other globally significant medicines, and they remain an untapped
resource with enormous industrial potential
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