The rising number of fungal infections has prompted the need to understand every aspect of pathogenic fungi, which are capable of infecting humans, animals and insects. This exhaustive book meets that crucial need.

Here is a compendium for scientists who rely on a rapid and reliable detection of fungal specimens in environmental as well as clinical resources in order to ensure the benefit of industrial and clinical applications.

This book combines state-of-the-art expertise from a variety of diverse pathogen model systems to provide an update to our current understanding of the regulation of fungal morphogenesis as a key determinant of pathogenicity in fungi.

This volume presents cutting edge research on basic and applied aspects of fungal physiology and genetics. Renowned experts provide an overview of traditional as well as current and future aspects of potential application of fungi in biotechnology.

Plant Biology is a new textbook written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It is an account of modern plant science, reflecting recent advances in genetics and genomics and the excitement they have created. The book begins with a review of what is known about the origins of modern-day plants. Next, the special features of plant genomes and genetics are explored. Subsequent chapters provide information on our current understanding of plant cell biology, plant metabolism, and plant developmental biology, with the remaining three chapters outlining the interactions of plants with their environments. The final chapter discusses the relationship of plants with humans: domestication, agriculture and crop breeding. Plant Biology contains over 600 full color illustrations, and each chapter begins with Learning Objectives and concludes with a Summary.

Highlighting recent developments in our understanding of fungus-plant interactions, internationally acknowledged authors review fungal lifestyles, interactions with host plants, signal perception and transduction, and defense responses against fungal attack.

Highlighting recent developments in our understanding of fungus-plant interactions, internationally acknowledged authors review fungal lifestyles, interactions with host plants, signal perception and transduction, and defense responses against fungal attack.

This volume presents current protocols for the study of symbiotic fungi and their interactions with plant roots, such as techniques for analyzing nutrient transfer, ecological restoration, microbial communication, and mycorrhizal bioassays.