Fungi And Fungal Metabolites For The Improvement Of Human And Animal Nutrition And Health

Download or read book Fungi and Fungal Metabolites for the Improvement of Human and Animal Nutrition and Health written by Laurent Dufoss ́e and published by Mdpi AG. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book was not to provide a comprehensive overview of the vast arena of how fungi and fungal metabolites are able to improve human and animal nutrition and health; rather, we, as Guest Editors, wished to encourage authors working in this field to publish their most recent work in this rapidly growing journal in order for the large readership to appreciate the full potential of wonderful and beneficial fungi. Thus, this Special Issue welcomed scientific contributions on applications of fungi and fungal metabolites, such as bioactive fatty acids, pigments, polysaccharides, alkaloids, terpenoids, etc., with great potential in human and animal nutrition and health.