Fungal Biotechnology in Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Applications

Dilip K. Arora is a Director with the National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, New Delhi, India, as well as Professor of Microbiology and Mycology at the Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. The author or coauthor of over 90 research papers, review articles and book chapters in international scientific journals and books, he serves on the editorial boards of more than a half dozen journals and has helped organize numerous conferences and symposia worldwide. Dr. Arora is the coeditor of Chemical Fungal Taxonomy; Handbook of Applied Mycology, V.1: Soils and Plants; V.2: Humans, Animals and Insects; V.3: Foods and Feeds and V.5: Mycotoxins in Ecological Systems (all titles, Marcel Dekker, Inc.). His current research interests include molecular interaction between fungi and molecular detection of plant pathogenic fungi. Dr Arora received the M.Sc. (1974) and Ph.D. (1977) degrees in botany from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.