Dr. Ram Prasad is Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh. Dr. Prasad has completed his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Microbiology, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, UP, India, in collaboration with School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. Dr. Prasad received his M.Sc. in Life Sciencesat JNUand was qualified CSIR-NET,ASRB-NET, and GATE. His areas of interest include plant microbe interaction, and agricultural and microbial nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has ninety five publications to his credit, including research papers and book chapters, five patents issued or pending, and edited or authored four books. Dr Prasad also has 10 years of teaching experience, was awarded Young Scientist Award (2007) and Prof. J.S. DattaMunshi Gold Medal (2009) by International Society for Ecological Communications; FSAB fellowship (2010) by Society for Applied Biotechnology; Outstanding Scientist Award (2015) in the field of Microbiology by Venus International Foundation; andwas awarded the American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowship, USA (2014) for Beginning Investigators. In 2014 Dr Prasad served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Contents

1. Understanding Mechanism of Fungus Mediated Nanosynthesis: A Molecular Approach

Anal K. Jha, Kamal Prasad

2. Innovation of Strategies and Challenges for Fungal Nanobiotechnology

Necdet Saglam, Ozfer Yesilada, Ahmet Cabuk, Mesut Sam, Semran Saglam, Sedef Ilk, Ezgi Emul, Pinar Aytar, Ekrem Gurel

3. Marine-derived Fungi : Potential Candidates for Fungal Nanobiotechnology

Anjana K Vala, Hiral B Trivedi, Bharti P Dave

4. Green Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles by Fungi: Current Trends and Challenges

Luciano Paulino Silva, Cínthia Caetano Bonatto, and Vera Lúcia Perussi Polez

5. Microbial Enzymes: Current Features and Potential Applications in Nanobiotechnology

Mohammadhassan Gholami-Shabani, Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi, Zeynab Gholami-Shabani, Mehdi Razzaghi-Abyaneh

6. The Effect of Mycobiota on the Biointerface of Polyaniline Surface

Elena Binkauskiene, Vitalija Jasulaitiene, Ausra Selskiene, Albinas Lugauskas

7. Methods and Techniques of Synthesis and Evaluation of Nanoparticles Activity as Fungicides

Youn Su Lee and I.S. Ahmed

8. Plant Fungal Disease Management using Nanobiotechnology as a Tool

Sandra Pérez Álvarez, Norma Elena Leyva López, Jesús Méndez Lozano, Edgar Antonio Rodríguez Negrete, María Elena Santos Cervantes

9. Antifungal Products by Fungi in Food Nano-Packaging

Arash Babaei, Mohamad Javad Akbarian, Samaneh Faraji

10. Fungal Nanoparticles: An Emerging Tool of Medical Biology

Anurag Yadav, Amit Verma, Kusum Yadav

11. Intervention of Fungi in Nano-particle Technology and Applications

Ramesh Raliya1, Vinod Saharan, Ramprakash Saran, Kailash Choudhary, Jagadish C. Tarafdar, Pratim Biswas

12. Microbial Laccases and Nanobiotechnology: Environmental Perspective

Sunita J. Varjani

13. Polymer Inorganic Nanocomposites: A Sustainable Antimicrobial Agents

Ayat F. Hashim, Mousa A. Alghuthaymi, Alexander Yu. Vasil'kov, Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam

14. Advances in Botanicals Formulations with Incorporation of Nanotechnology in Intensive Crop Management

Pinki Bhandari, Megha Pant, P.K. Patanjali, S.K. Raza

15. Nano-biofungicides: Emerging Trend in Insect Pest Control

Atanu Bhattacharyya, Prabha Duraisamy, Marimuthu Govindarajan, Abdul A. Buhroo, Ram Prasad

¿¿Fungal nanobiotechnology has emerged as one of the key technologies, and an eco-friendly, as a source of food and harnessed to ferment and preserve foods and beverages, as well as applications in human health (antibiotics, anti-cholesterol statins, and immunosuppressive agents), while industry has used fungi for large-scale production of enzymes, acids, biosurfactants, and to manage fungal disease in crops and pest control. With the harnessing of nanotechnology, fungi have grown increasingly important by providing a greener alternative to chemically synthesized nanoparticles.