Trichoderma : biology and applications /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
• Subjects: Trichoderma.; Soil Biology.; Fermentation Technology and Industrial Microbiology, (New June 2002); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Taxonomy and Evolution.; Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000); Genetics and Molecular Biology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000); Beneficial organisms.; Endophytes.; Industrial applications.; Interactions.; Soil fungi.; Taxonomy.
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This book provides an update on the advances in Trichoderma research, covering most of the aspects related to the biology, genetics, genomics and applications of Trichoderma species. An overview of the importance of Trichoderma spp. in agriculture, industry and medicine (chapter 1) is presented. The...

Table of Contents:

• Trichoderma in agriculture, industry and medicine : an overview / Prasun K. Mukherjee, Benjamin A. Horwitz, Uma S. Singh, Mala Mukherjee and Monika Schmoll
• Two Hundred Trichoderma species recognized on the basis of molecular phylogeny / Lea Atanasova, Irina S. Druzhinina and Walter M. Jaklitsch
• The influence of light on the biology of Trichoderma / Sergio Casas-Flores and Alfredo Herrera-Estrella
• Sexual development in Trichoderma : scrutinizing the aspired phenomenon / Monika Schmoll
• Asexual development in Trichoderma : from Conidia to chlamydospores / Johanna M. Steyaert, Richard J. Weld, Artemio Mendoza-Mendoza, Svetlana Krys<U+00cc> tofova<U+00cc><U+00fd>, Martin S<U+00cc> imkovic<U+00cc> , L'udovi<U+00cc><U+00fd>t Varec<U+00cc> ka and Alison Stewart
• Volatile organic metabolites of Trichoderma spp. : biosynthesis, biology and analytics / Susanne Zeilinger and Rainer Schuhmacher
• Molecular tools in Trichoderma genetic studies / Matthias G. Steiger
• Trichoderma in the rhizosphere : looking for sugar? / Walter A. Vargas, David Laughlin and Charles M. Kenerley
• The endophytic Trichoderma / Bryan A. Bailey and Rachel L. Melnick
• Promotion of plant growth and the induction of systemic defense by Trichoderma : physiology, genetics and gene expression / Hexon Angel Contreras-Cornejo, Randy Ortiz-Castro and Jose<U+00cc><U+00fd> Lo<U+00cc><U+00fd>pez-Bucio
• Trichoderma genomes : a vast reservoir of potential elicitor proteins / Benjamin A. Horwitz, Idit Kosti, Fabian Glaser and Mala Mukherjee
• The use of metabolomic approaches to study Trichoderma-plant interactions / Yariv Brotman
• Trichoderma and the biorefinery : from plant health to enzymes to biofuel production / Sue A. Karagiosis and Scott E. Baker
• Trichoderma in plant health management / Najam W. Zaidi and Uma S. Singh
• Marine-derived Trichoderma : a source of new bioactive metabolites / Nicolas Ruiz, Catherine Roullier, Karina Petit, Claire Sallenave-Namont, Olivier Grovel, Yves Franc<U+00cc>ʹois Pouchus
• Trichoderma as cell factories / Rita Gorsche, Astrid R. Mach-Aigner and Robert L. Mach
• Trichoderma as a human pathogen / Lo<U+00cc><U+00fd>ra<U+00cc><U+00fd>nt Hatvani, La<U+00cc><U+00fd>szlo<U+00cc><U+00fd> Manczinger, Csaba Va<U+00cc><U+00fd>gvo<U+00cc>¡lgyi and La<U+00cc><U+00fd>zlo<U+00cc><U+00fd> Kredics.