The Growing Fungus

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gow, Neil A. R. (Editor), Gadd, Geoffrey M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1995.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Animal anatomy.; Life Sciences.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.
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This book is about the growth and differentiation processes underlying the growth and differentia­ of filamentous fungi. The impetus for this work tion of fungi and that it provides the reader with stems from our perception that the coverage of adequate source references for further information. thi...

Table of Contents:

• The Growing Fungus
• The Success of the Hypha and Mycelium
• Mycelial Interconnectedness
• The Architecture of Fungal Cells
• Cell Walls
• Cell Membrane
• Organelles of Filamentous Fungi
• The Cytoskeleton
• Metabolism and Genetic Regulation
• Fungal Exoenzymes
• Transport
• Signal Transduction In Fungi
• Intermediary Metabolism
• Genetics of Fungi
• Molecular Biology
• Coordination of Growth and Division
• Tip Growth and Polarity
• Kinetics of Filamentous Growth and Branching
• Mathematical Modelling of Fungal Growth
• Differentiation
• Sporulation of Lower Fungi
• Asexual Sporulation in Higher Fungi
• Sexual Reproduction in Higher Fungi
• Yeast-Hyphal Dimorphism
• Tissue Formation.