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Fungal Biology
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Fungal Biology is the fully updated new edition of this undergraduate text, covering all major areas of fungal biology and providing insights into many topical areas.
- Provides insights into many topical areas such as fungal ultrastructure and the mechanisms of fungal growth, important fungal metabolites and the molecular techniques used to study fungal populations.
- Focuses on the interactions of fungi that form the basis for developing biological control agents, with several commercial examples of the control of insect pests and plant diseases.
- Emphasises the functional biology of fungi, with examples from recent research.
- Includes a clear illustrative account of the features and significance of the main fungal groups.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction: the fungi and fungal activities
- Chapter 2 The diversity of fungi and fungus-like organisms
- Chapter 3 Fungal structure and ultrastructure
- Chapter 4 Fungal growth
- Chapter 5 Differentiation and development
- Chapter 6 Fungal nutrition
- Chapter 7 Fungal metabolism and fungal products
- Chapter 8 Environmental conditions for growth, and tolerance of extremes
- Chapter 9 Fungal genetics, molecular genetics, and genomics
- Chapter 10 Fungal spores, spore dormancy, and spore dispersal
- Chapter 11 Fungal ecology: saprotrophs
- Chapter 12 Fungal interactions: mechanisms and practical exploitation
- Chapter 13 Fungal symbiosis
- Chapter 14 Fungi as plant pathogens
- Chapter 15 Fungal parasites of insects and nematodes
- Chapter 16 “The moulds of man”
- Chapter 17 Principles and practice of controlling fungal growth
- Sources
- Systematic index
- General index
