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Contents
1 Basics of Fungal Siderophores: Classification,
Iron Transport and Storage, Chemistry
and Biosynthesis, Application, and More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Shyam Sundar Arputhanantham, Kalpana Raja,
Latha Shanmugam, and Vijayakumar Raman
2 Inhibition of Siderophores in Blocking Fungal Infection . . . . . . . . . . 13
Sonam Bhatia and Shaminder Singh
3 Association of Fungal Siderophores in Human Diseases: Roles and
Treatments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Saranya Jayapalan, Archana Prabahar, and Shankar Arumugam
4 Siderophores Mediated Iron Acquisition and Virulence
of Brown Rot Disease in Stone Fruits Caused
by Monilinia fructicola in Jammu and Kashmir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Sadia Ashraf, Kalyani Dhusia, and Susheel Verma
5 Application of Siderophore in Crop Productivity
and Remediation of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soil . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Anuj Saxena
6 Interventions to Ameliorate Heavy Metal Contaminated
Soils Employing Fungal Siderophores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Ramu Govindan, Logesh Rajan, Tilak Meenakshisundaram,
Sivakumar Karthikeyan, Rajan Karuppusamy, Lakshmaiah Kathari,
Duraiswamy Basavan, Dhanabal Palanisamy, and Suresh Kumar
Mohankumar
7 Contrasting Role of Fungal Siderophore
in Metal Ion Complex Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Snigdha Bhardwaj, Shaminder Singh, and Sonam Bhatia