Fungal Biology and Biotechnology

At Springer Nature, we are committed to raising the quality of academic research across Microbiology. We've created a new page, highlighting our mycology journals and mycology content. 

This Collection aims to highlight advances in our understanding of the significant role of fungi in diverse aspects of food production, including as food themselves or as meat replacement, as major players in modifying natural products for human consumption, sources of enzymes, and vitamins and how they maintain soil fertility.

Food security is a complex problem. This cross-journal collection will cover various aspects of maintaining or enhancing food production, sustainability and security that can be tackled from a microbiology perspective.

This collection will cover recent advancements in the evolution of microbiome consortia, the latest signature microbiome-based development, and biotechnological solutions for sustainable environmental management and bioproduction systems in the wake of emerging challenges, including climate change.

Metaphors have long been used by scientists to summarise or visualise complex biological processes. In this special collection, we aim to look past these metaphors, to capture the complexity of fungal natural product biosynthesis in all its splendour.

Fungal biotechnology's potential to sustainably produce textiles as well as materials for construction, furniture and transportation industries has the potential to significantly contribute to the United Nation’s sustainable development goals. The aim of this collection is to provide fungal and material experts a forum for discussion on the multidisciplinary approaches important in the rapidly evolving field of fungal biomaterials, to highlight recent breakthroughs and to exchange ideas and visions.