Biodiversity of Fungi. Their Role in Human Life
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Author(s): S. K. Deshmukh and M. K. Rai (Eds)
Publisher: Science Publishers
ISBN: 1578083680
Format: hardback
460pp
Price: £48.40
Review Date: 14 August 2005
Review: This book covers many different aspects of fungal diversity. Early chapters describe fungal phylogeny, endophytes in tropical forests, and fungi from little-explored or extreme habitats such as hypersaline environments and deserts. Later chapters describe ectomychorrizal fungi, aquatic fungi, keratinophilic fungi of birds, and degradation of organic pollutants by ligninolytic basidiomycetes. Topics of other chapters include the use of filamentous fungi in edible crops and healthcare, the genus Neosartorya and its significance in applied mycology, organic dyes from fungi and the problem of fungi in ornamental crops. Final chapters describe fungal protoplast technology and the application of universally primed PCR in mycology. This book will be of interest to students and scientists in agriculture and industry.