Progress in Mycology - Hardcover

Rai, Mahendra; Kovics, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8172336365 ISBN 13: 9788172336363

Publisher: Scientific Publishers Journals Dept, 2010

Contents: Preface. 1. Better yeast for better wine - genetic improvement of Saccharomyces cerevisiae wine strains/Dorit Schuller. 2. Genetics and genomics of aspergillus flavus/Jiujiang Yu, William C. Nierman, Joan W. Bennett, Thomas E. Cleveland, Deepak Bhatnagar, Bruce C. Campbell, Ralph A. Dean and Gary Payne. 3. Genetic transformation of zygomycetes fungi/Tamas Papp, Arpad Csernetics, Ildiko Nyilasi, Marianna Abrok, Csaba Vagvolgyi. 4. Current advances in aspergillosis/Amparo Sole. 5. Fungal infections of the central nervous system/Salwa Shabbir Sheikh and Samir Sami Amr. 6. Otomycosis in Turkey: a review/Muge Ozcan. 7. Current trends in fungal Rhinosinusitis/Ahmed Ragab. 8. Biodiversity of filamentous fungi on soils and sands/Azevedo E., Figueira D., Caeiro M.F., and Barata M. 9. Role of mycorrhizal fungi in growth promotion of crop plants/Sarika Shende and Mahendra Rai. 10. Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis: possibilities and prospects/Kamal Prasad. 11. Higher basidiomycetes: mushrooms as a source of antioxidants/Mikheil D. Asatiani, Vladimir Elisashvili, George Songulashvili, Abraham Z. Reznick and Solomon P. Wasser. 12. The contribution of wild fungi to diet, income and health: a world review/Miriam de Roman. 13. Mercury in certain mushroom species in Poland/Jerzy Falandysz. 14. Alcohol oxidase enzyme of methylotrophic yeasts as a basis of biosensors for detection of lower aliphatic alcohols/Reshetilov Anatoly N., Reshetilova Tatyana A. and Kitova Anna E. 15. Chitin Metabolism in fungi/Neetu Dahiya. 16. Fungi-mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles: characterization processes and applications/Nelson Duran, Priscyla D. Marcato, Avinash Ingle, Aniket Gade and Mahendra Rai.

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About the Author:

Dr. M.K. Rai is Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology at Amravati University in Maharashtra, India. He has published 170 research papers, more than 100 popular articles in Indian and foreign journals and Thirteen books. He is a member of several scientific societies and has been a national Scholar for five years. He has received several prestigious awards, including the father T.A. Mathias award (1989) from the All India Association for Christian Higher Education, and the Medini award (1999) from the Department of Environment and Forest, Government of India. He also received SERC visiting fellowship by Department of Science and Technology (1996), INSA visiting fellowship by Indian National Science Academy (1998) and TWAS-UNESCO Associateship (2002), Italy, and Fellowship from Hungarian Scholarship Board, Hungary (2005 and 2008). He has 26 years of teaching and research experience.
Dr G.J. Kovics is a Professor of Plant Pathology and Head of the Plant Protection Department at Debrecen University (Hungary), gained his MSc. PhD, CSc and Dr Habil qualifications at Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a renowned mycologist. His main scientific fields are morphological and molecular taxonomy of Phoma and Phoma-like fungi (Coelomycetes), the diagnosis and aetiology of plant fungal diseases, pathogenesis, and epidemiology of Papillonaceous plants (e.g. soybean, chickpea, lupine), grains (wheat stem base diseases), and fruits (strawberry, raspberry, and blackberry). Professor Kovics is also interested in integrated pest management including biological control of plant pathogens. He has published about 200 scientific papers including more than 20 books and chapters both in Hungarian and English. Regularly involved in editing of proceedings and books. He is member of Hungarian and foreign societies. Moreover, he is organizer of international symposia resulting into wide range of collaborative contacts with researchers all over the world

From the Back Cover:

The present book is aimed to provide the readers with current trends in the field of Mycology in general and fungal biotechnology in particular.

The book would be of utmost importance to students, researchers and teachers of botany, mycology, microbiology, medical microbiology, fungal biotechnology and nanotechnology. The readers should find the book full of information and reader friendly.

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