Advances in Applied Biotechnology

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in 1981. He worked as a microbiologist at the National Institute of R&D in Floriculture, as a research assistant, and as a principal investigator at R&D Institute for Vegetables and Fruits Processing. He has also been acting as a lecturer at the Ecological University of Bucharest and worked as a senior researcher at the National Institute for R&D in Horticultural Biotechnology Stefanesti-Arges. Since 2007, he has been teaching as a professor of biotechnology for environmental protection, microbiology and bioremediation at the University of Pitesti, Faculty of Sciences. So far, he wrote and published over 140 papers, 50 of them being published in international journals and proceeding volumes all over the world; he published 10 books in Romania and had 2 book chapters published by Marcel Dekker and Kluwer Academic Publishers. During the last decade, he registered, as first author, 10 Romanian patents in the field of biotechnology for edible and medicinal mushroom cultivation and has been awarded with gold and silver medals at international exhibitions for inventions, research and new technologies. Contents Preface XI Part Biotechnology of Agricultural Wastes -Recycling, Saving Energy and Food Quality Preservation 1 Chapter Biotechnology of Agricultural Wastes Recycling Through Controlled Cultivation of Mushrooms 3