Professor Sylvie Rapior's work featured in ChinaDaily
On August 09, 2019, the ChinaDaily newspaper published an interview withPrSylvie Rapior, professor of botany and mycology at the faculty and director of the Substances Naturelles et Médiations Chimiques team (UMR 5175 CEFE), following this recent work published in the international journal Fungal Diversity. The article, the fruit of collaboration between researchers from ten countries, lists the incredible biotechnological potential of fungi.
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Fungi are a little-studied group of organisms with high biodiversity and undeniable biotechnological value. Because of the wide range of habitats in which fungi live, and the consequent need to compete with many other fungi, bacteria and animals, they have developed numerous survival mechanisms. What's more, some mushroom species can be cultivated with relative ease, making production on a viable scale. Thus, researching fungal biodiversity and building up a collection of living fungi offers incredible economic potential for locating organisms with new industrial uses that will lead to new products. This manuscript reviews fifty ways in which fungi can potentially be used in biotechnology. We provide notes and examples for each potential exploitation, as well as examples from our own work and that of other researchers. We also provide a flow chart that can be used to convince funding agencies of the importance of fungi for biotechnology research and as potential products. Mushrooms have provided the world with penicillin, lovastatin and other drugs of global importance, and they remain an untapped resource with enormous industrial potential.
The amazing potential of fungi, 50 ways we can exploit fungi industrially.
FungalDiversity, Online, 1-136 (2019). doi :10.1007/s13225-019-00430-9; hal-02196145
Kevin D. Hyde, Jianchu Xu, Sylvie Rapior, Rajesh Jeewon, Saisamorn Lumyong, Allen G.T. Niego, Pranami D. Abeywickrama, Janith V.S. Aluthmuhandiram, Rashika S. Brahamanage, Siraprapa Brooks, Amornrat Chaiyasen, K.W. Thilini Chethana, Putarak Chomnunti, Clara Chepkirui, Boontiya Chuankid, Nimali I. de Silva, Mingkwan Doilom, Craig Faulds, Eleni Gentekaki, Venkat Gopalana, Pattana Kakumyan, Kalani K. Hapuarachchi, Dulanjalee Harishchandra, Hridya Hemachandran, Sinang Hongsanan, Anuruddha Karunarathna, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Sehroon Khan, Jaturong Kumla, Ruvishika Jayawardena, Ningguo Liu, Thatsanee Luangharn, Allan P.G. Macabeo, Diana S. Marasinghe, Dan Meeks, Peter E. Mortimer, Peter Mueller, Sadia Nadir, Karaba N. Nataraja, Sureeporn Nontachaiyapoom, Meghan O'Brien, Watsana Penkhrue, Chayanard Phukhamsakda, Uma Shaanker Ramanan, Achala R. Rathnayaka, Resurreccion B. Sadaba, Birthe Sandargo, Binu Samarakoon, Danushka Sandaruwan, Ramamoorthy Siva, Wasan Sriprom, T.S. Suryanarayanan, Kanaporn Sujarit, Nakarin Suwannarach, Thitipone Suwunwong, Surachai Techaoei, Benjarong Thongbai, Naritsada Thongklang, Deping Wei, Ting-Chi Wen, S. Nuwanthika Wijesinghe, Jake Winiski, Yuanpin Xiao, Jiye Yan, Erandi Yasanthika and Marc Stadler.