Tropical mycology. Volume 2, Micromycetes /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2002.
• Subjects: Fungi > Congresses. > Tropics; Mycology > Congresses. > Tropics; Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Microbial Ecology, (New March 2000); Taxonomy and Evolution.; Morphology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000); Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000); Fungi.; Anatomy.; Biochemistry.; Lichens.; Microorganisms.; Phylogeny.; Physiology.; Plant pathogenic fungi.; Plant pathogens.; Taxonomy.; Electronic books.
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This second volume of Tropical Mycology contains 11 sections discussing the biology, taxonomy, phylogeny, physiology, anatomy and biochemistry of lichens and microfungi, including some plant pathogenic fungi.

Table of Contents:

• Why Study Tropical Fungi? / D.L. Hawksworth
• Key to Tropical Species of Nectria-like Fungi / G.J. Samuels, A.Y. Rossman and H.-J. Schroers
• A Reassessment of the Taxonomy of Some Tropical Sooty Moulds / J.L. Faull, I. Olejnik, M. Ingrouille and D. Reynolds
• Lignicolous Freshwater Higher Fungi with Reference to their Teleomorph and Anamorph Stages / S. Sivichai, E.B. Gareth Jones and N.L. Hywel-Jones
• The Pandanaceae : Does it Have a Diverse and Unique Fungal Biota? / E.H.C. McKenzie, S.R. Whitton and K.D. Hyde
• Aspects of Graminicolous Downy Mildew Biology : Perspectives for Tropical Plant Pathology and Peronosporomycetes Phylogeny / M.A. Spencer and M.W. Dick
• Invasive Neotropical Pathogens of Tree Crops / H.C. Evans
• Lichens of Tropical Forests / B.J. Coppins and P. Wolseley
• The Importance of Invertebrate-pathogenic Fungi from the Tropics / N.L. Hywel-Jones
• Tropical Mycoses : Hazards to Travellers / E.G.V. Evans and H.R. Ashbee
• Recent and Future Discoveries of Pharmacologically Active Metabolites from Tropical Fungi / G. Bills, A. Dombrowski, F. Peláez, J. Polishook and Zhiqiang An.