Advances in Trichoderma Biology for Agricultural Applications

Preface
Section 1: Taxonomy and Diversity of Trichoderma
Chapter 1: Taxonomy and biodiversity of the genus TrichodermaDr. Irina S. DruzhininaInstitute of Chemical, Environmental and Biological Engineering, Austria
Chapter 2: Sexual and asexual development in TrichodermaDr. Alfredo H. Herrera-EstrellaLaboratorio Nacional de Geno´ mica para la Biodiversidad, Mexico
Chapter 3: Diversity and exploitation of Trichoderma based on biochemical analysisDr. Wen-Ying ZhuangInstitute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Section 2: Trichoderma interaction with plants and pathogens
Chapter 4: Plant-Trichoderma-Pathogen InteractionDr. M. LoritoUniversity of Naples and CNR IPP-Institute for Plant Protection, Italy
Chapter 5: Elicitor proteins from Trichoderma for biocontrol potentialsDr. Santiago GutiérrezUniversity School of Agricultural Engineers, Spain
Chapter 6: Trichoderma enzymes and their applications in biocontrol activityDr. P. K. MukherjeeBhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
Chapter 7: Tools for strain improvement of TrichodermaDr. Verena SeidlVienna University of Technology, Austria
Chapter 8: Role of Trichoderma in inducing systemic resistance in plantsDr. Elisa PellegriniUniversity of Pisa, Italy
Chapter 9: Role of Trichoderma in plant growth promotionDr. Laura Lidia Villalba Universidad Nacional de Misiones
Chapter 10: Mycoparasitic action of TrichodermaDr. Someshwar BhagatICAR-Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, India
Chapter 11: Metabolic approaches to study Trichoderma-Plant interactionsDr. Qirong ShenNanjing Agricultural University, China
Section 3: Industrial Applications of Trichoderma
Chapter 12: Role of Trichoderma enzymes in food industriesDr. Sezerman Osman UgurAcibadem University, Turkey
Chapter 13: Trichoderma enzymes in wine and beer industryDr. Harald ClausJohannes Gutenberg-University, Germany
Chapter 14: Industrially important genes from TrichodermaDr. Ahmed M.A. El-BondklyNational Research Centre, Egypt
Chapter 15: Bioconversion potential of TrichodermaDr. Mehwish Iqtedar Lahore College for Women University Pakistan
Section 4: Abiotic stress management by Trichoderma
Chapter 16: Biodegredation potentials of pesticides by TrichodermaDr. Novi ArfaritaMalang Islamic University, Indonesia
Chapter 17: Management of heavy metal pollutions by TrichodermaDr. Malgorzata J. KacprzakCzestochowa University of Technolog

Dr. N. Amaresan is an Assistant Professor at C.G. Bhakta Institute of Biotechnology, Uka Tarsadia University, Gujarat. He has over fifteen years of experience in teaching & research in various allied fields of microbiology mainly plant-microbe interactions, bioremediation, plant pathology and others. He has been awarded young scientist awards by Association of Microbiologists of India and National Academy of Biological Sciences. He also been awarded visiting scientist fellowship from National Academy of India to learn advanced techniques. He has published more than 100 research articles, book chapters and books of national and international reputes. He also deposited over 550 16S rDNA, 28S rDNA and ITS rDNA sequences in the Genbank (NCBI, EMBL & DDBJ) and also preserved over 150 microbial germplasm in various culture collection centres of India. He has successfully completed research projects from national funding agencies such as SERB-DST, GUJCOST, UTU, & GEMI and guided studentsfor their doctoral and master degrees.
Dr. A. Sankaranarayanan is an Associate Professor in Life Sciences, Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence, Kalaburagi of Karnataka state, India from June 2021 onwards. His current research focus is on fermented food products. He has published 30 chapters in books, 60 research articles in International and National journals of repute, guided 5 Ph.D., and 16 M.Phil., scholars and operated 5 minor funded projects in Microbiology. From 2002 -2015, he worked as an Assistant Professor & Head, Department of Microbiology, K.S.R. College of Arts & Science, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu and August, 2015- May, 2021 associated with Uka Tarsadia University, Surat of Gujarat state, India. He has awarded with Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and The National Academy of Sciences (TNAS) sponsored summer research fellowship for young teachers consecutively for three years and name is included as a Mentor in DST-Mentors/Resource persons for summer/winter camps and other INSPIRE initiatives, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi. He is a Grant reviewer in British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC), UK.
Dr. Mitesh Kumar Dwivedi is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at C. G. Bhakta Institute of Biotechnology, Uka Tarsadia University. He has published 51 research papers in reputed journals, written 14 book chapters and is editor of 6 books. He has h-index of 21 with 1521 citations for his research papers. He has more than 13 years of experience in research & teaching in various allied fields of microbiology & life science including host-microbe interaction, probiotics, herbal medicine, immunobiology and others. He has been serving as an editorial board member and reviewer of many international journals. He has been honoured with international as well as national awards for excellent research performance [Best Researcher Award (2020), INSA Visiting Scientist Award (2019), DST-SERB Early Career Research Award (2018), Young Scientist Awards (2011, 2013 & 2018)]. He secured All India rank '32' in CSIR-NET national examination (2011; Life Sciences). He has successfully completed research projects from national funding agencies such as SERB-DST, GUJCOST, UTU, Neosciences & Research Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and guided students for their doctoral and master degrees.
Dr. Irina S. Druzhinina is a professor of Microbiology in the College of Resources and Environmental Sciences in Nanjing Agricultural University (China), head of the International Committee on Trichoderma Taxonomy, member of the International Committee of Taxonomy of Fungi, IUMS, and an editor of the Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM) journal (ASM). Before moving to China in 2019, for many years, Irina ran the group of Microbiology and Applied Genomics in TU Wien (Vienna, Austria), where she studied fungal DNA Barcoding andmolecular evolution, genomics, and ecophysiology of Trichoderma and other hypocrealean fungi. The newly established Fungal Genomics Laboratory (FungiG) in Nanjing continues the research on the genus Trichoderma, focusing on its ecological genomics and fitness. In particular, the group is interested in the development of a Trichoderma-based model for systems biology investigation of filamentous fungi. Furthermore, the group studies the function and production of fungal surface-active proteins (hydrophobins, cerato-platanins) and their role in the fungal lifestyle. The applied research of Irina and her colleagues targets the improvement of the biological degradation of synthetic polymers and the development of biological products for plant protection and growth promotion.