The importance of fungi and mycology for addressing major global challenges*

IMA Fungus
Lene Lange

Abstract

In the new bioeconomy, fungi play a very important role in addressing major global challenges, being instrumental for improved resource efficiency, making renewable substitutes for products from fossil resources, upgrading waste streams to valuable food and feed ingredients, counteracting life-style diseases and antibiotic resistance through strengthening the gut biota, making crop plants more robust to survive climate change conditions, and functioning as host organisms for production of new biological drugs. This range of new uses of fungi all stand on the shoulders of the efforts of mycologists over generations: the scientific discipline mycology has built comprehensive understanding within fungal biodiversity, classification, evolution, genetics, physiology, ecology, pathogenesis, and nutrition. Applied mycology could not make progress without this platform. To unfold the full potentials of what fungi can do for both environment and man we need to strengthen the field of mycology on a global scale. The current mission statement gives an overview of where we are, what needs to be done, what obstacles to overcome, and which potentials are within reach. It further provides a vision for how mycology can be strengthened: The tim...Continue Reading

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Jan 27, 2016·Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology·Felipe S Chambergo, Estela Y Valencia
Jun 20, 2017·Applied and Environmental Microbiology·Francesca De FilippisDanilo Ercolini
Dec 20, 2018·Royal Society Open Science·Darragh HareH Kern Reeve
May 29, 2020·Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics·Irene MartorelliFons J Verbeek
Apr 23, 2020·Frontiers in Microbiology·Ralph GötzUlrich Terpitz
Jan 6, 2021·Evolution & Development·Scott F Gilbert

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