Microbial Carotenoids From Fungi

Essential Role of Genetics in the Advancement of Biotechnology.-Microbial Carotenoids.-Biosynthesis, Extraction, Purification and Analysis of Trisporoid Sexual Communication Compounds from Mated Cultures of Blakeslea trispora.-Isolation of Mutants and Construction of Intersexual Heterokaryons of Blakeslea trispora.-Molecular Tools for Carotenogenesis Analysis in the Zygomycete Mucor circinelloides.-Gene Fusions for the Directed Modification of the Carotenoid Biosynthesis Pathway in Mucor circinelloides.-Integration of a Bacterial b-carotene Ketolase Gene into the Mucor circinelloides Genome by the Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated Transformation (ATMT) Method.-Metabolic Engineering of Mucor circinelloides for Zeaxanthin Production.-Bioengineering of Oleaginous Yeast Yarrowia Lipolytica for Lycopene Production.-Peroxisome Targeting of Lycopene Pathway Enzymes in Pichia pastoris.-Production, Extraction and Quantification of Astaxanthin by Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous or Haematococcus pluvialis: Standardized Techniques.-Isolation and Selection of New Astaxanthin Producing Strains of Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous.-Isolation and Characterization of Extrachromosomal double-stranded RNA Elements in Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous.-Isolation of Carotenoid Hyperproducing Mutants of Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous (Phaffia rhodozyma) by Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting.-Generation of Astaxanthin Mutants in Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous using a Double Recombination Method Based on Hygromycin Resistance.-Genetic Manipulation of Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous and Phaffia rhodozyma.-DNA Assembler Method for Construction of Zeaxanthin-producing

Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.-Neurosporaxanthin Production by Neurospora and Fusarium.-Production of Torularhodin, Torulene and Beta-Carotene by Rhodotorula Yeasts.

From the book reviews:"All the chapters are well organized and each chapter contains an abstract at the beginning and a note or conclusion at the last that can be very useful for the reader. ... This book is very important to scientists, researchers and teachers as well as students who are interested in microbial carotenoids and commercial production. This book therefore should be available in all schools, biotechnology laboratories, community and university libraries." (Kasun M. Thambugala and Paul G. Mungai, Fungal Diversity, December, 2014)