Fungal Biology [Paperback]

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.

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• 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.

1 Introduction: the fungi and fungal activities.

2 The diversity of fungi and fungus-like organisms.

3 Fungal structure and ultrastructure.

4 Fungal growth.

5 Differentiation and development.

6 Fungal nutrition.

7 Fungal metabolism and fungal products.

8 Environmental conditions for growth, and tolerance of extremes.

9 Fungal genetics, molecular genetics, and genomics.

10 Fungal spores, spore dormancy, and spore dispersal.

11 Fungal ecology: saprotrophs.

12 Fungal interactions: mechanisms and practical exploitation.

13 Fungal symbiosis.

14 Fungi as plant pathogens.

15 Fungal parasites of insects and nematol<