Mycological Research in Cultural Heritage Protection
A special issue of Journal of Fungi (ISSN 2309-608X). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Ecological Interactions of Fungi".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 126
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cultural heritage protection; microbiology; biochemistry; molecular biology; genomics; proteomics; metabolomics; bioinformatics; biological corrosion mechanism; biological prevention and control
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the protection of cultural relics, the problem of biological corrosion caused by microorganisms, especially fungi, cannot be ignored. The cultural heritage includes organic and inorganic cultural relics, such as wooden relics, stone relics, earth relics, murals, pottery figurine, silk relics, leather relics, bamboo slip and paper relics, etc. The aim and scope of this Special Issue are to provide an academic platform for study on mycological research in cultural heritage protection. Through the application of microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, and immunology techniques, scientists conduct research to analyze the population structure characteristics of microbial plaques on cultural relics, elucidate the biological corrosion mechanisms of cultural relics by fungi, clarify the relationship between fungi and the unearthed or preserved environment of cultural relics, and ultimately make conservation plans and take measures to prevent and control the fungal corrosion of cultural relics.
Prof. Dr. Jiao Pan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- organic and inorganic cultural relics
- fungal corrosion
- microbiology
- biochemistry
- molecular biology
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