THE IMPACT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY ON MARINE FUNGAL DIVERSITY

This paper mainly concentrates on the biotechnology view for the exploitation of marine fungal diversity to represent its physic - chemical properties in marine environment adaptation for the biotechnology applications. These fungal species has the habitats of endophytic or fungi associated marine algae or marine invertebrates especially like corals and sponges found in detritus and extreme marine environment. Fungal species associates in many biological activities such as decomposing plant material, production of bioactive compounds in plant s and animals due to the presence of degrading enzymes and also find its application in paper and pulp industries and bioremediation. The deep sea environment adapted fungi is yet to be explore for its sources of biotechnology application, though these environment has high hydrostatic pressure with low temperature or hydrothermal conditions. Understanding the adaptation for fungal species is used to investigate the novel compounds to use in biotechnology application.