Tropical mycology. Volume 1, Macromycetes /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2002.
• Subjects: Fungi > Congresses. > Tropics; Mycology > Congresses. > Tropics; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Production.; Soil Biology.; Biological Resources (Plant); Biodegradation.; Microbial Ecology, (New March 2000); Taxonomy and Evolution.; Fungi.; Conservation.; Crop production.; Ectomycorrhizas.; Edible fungi.; Enzyme activity.; Enzymes.; Ligninolytic microorganisms.; Mycology.; Mycorrhizal fungi.; Mycorrhizas.; Taxonomy.; Electronic books.
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This volume, which is the first of the two volumes on the proceedings of the General Meeting of the British Mycological Society in April 2000, consists of twelve chapters on macrofungi in western and tropical regions. The topics covered comprise ectomycorrhizal and floristic studies (chapters 1-4),...

Table of Contents:

• Agarics and Boletes of Neotropical Oakwoods / R.E. Halling and G.M. Mueller
• Diversity and Ecology of Tropical Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in Africa / A. Verbeken and B. Buyck
• The Occurrence and Distribution of Putative Ectomycorrhizal Basidiomycetes in a Regenerating South-east Asian Rainforest / R. Watling, S.S. Lee and E. Turnbull
• Basidiomycetes of the Greater Antilles Project / D.J. Lodge, T.J. Baroni and S.A. Cantrell
• Tropical Brown- and Black-spored Mexican Agarics with Particular Reference to Gymnopilus / L. Guzmán-Dávalos
• Patterns of Polypore Distribution in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Is Wallace's Line Significant? / M. Núñez, Suhirman and J.N. Stokland
• The Biology, Ecology and Pathology of Phellinus noxius in Taiwan / T.T. Chang
• Production of Ligninolytic Enzymes by Species Assemblages of Tropical Higher Fungi from Ecuador / M.A. Ullah, R. Camacho, C.S. Evans and J.N. Hedger
• Laboratory Studies with Leucoagaricus and Attine Ants / P.J. Fisher and D.J. Stradling
• Conservation of Mycodiversity in India : an Appraisal / T.N. Kaul
• Mushroom Collecting in Tanzania and Hunan (Southern China) : Inherited Wisdom and Folklore of Two Different Cultures / M. Härkönen
• Impact of Developmental, Physiological and Environmental Studies on the Commercial Cultivation of Mushrooms / D. Moore and S.W. Chiu.