Mycotechnology: A review

Sunita Sharma Sunita Sharma

Sunita Sharma NRI Vidyadayani Institute of Science, Management and Technology, Bhopal- 462044, MP (India)

Abstract

This paper surveys the capability of marine growths in biotechnology. The novel physico-concoction properties of the marine environment are probably going to have consulted marine parasites with exceptional physiological adjustments that could be misused in biotechnology. The accentuation of this audit is on marine growths from a couple of one of a kind environmental natural surroundings and their potential in biotechnological applications. These living spaces are endophytic or organisms connected with marine green growth, sea, grass and mangroves, parasites living together with marine spineless creatures, particularly corals and wipes, organisms in the marine garbage and marine outrageous situations. It is likely that microorganisms, including parasites might be the real makers of numerous bioactive mixes revealed in marine plants and creatures. Growths happening in disintegrating plant natural material or rubbish in the ocean have been appeared to be wellspring of a few wood-debasing catalysts of significance in paper and mash ventures and bioremediation. One of the significant utilizations of the thrausto chytrids happening in marine debris and silt is the creation of docosahexaenoic corrosive (DHA), an omega-3 unsaturated fat utilized as nutraceutical.

Keywords: Green revolution, Marine endophytic fungi, Bt Endotoxins, Application, Mycotechnology

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