| Pictorial Atlas of Soil and Seed Fungi: Morphologies of Cultured Fungi and Key to Species [With CDROM] Contributor(s): Watanabe, Tsuneo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1439804192 ISBN-13: 9781439804193 Publisher: CRC Press OUR PRICE: $228.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2010 Annotation: Fungi have come into demand as sources of biological control agents and of particular physiologically active substances. Recent studies indicate that fungi can be the prime cause of sinusitis, asthma, and allergenic troubles. Tsuneo Watanabe's book remains one of the few works that details information on techniques for isolating, culturing, and identifying soil and seed fungi. Watanabe presents the results of his soil-borne plant disease studies including pathological and mycological aspects. The Pictorial Atlas of Soil and Seed Fungi, Second Edition includes 45 new fungal species illustrated in brilliant detail using original photomicrographs and line drawings. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Microbiology - Science | Life Sciences - Botany - Science | Reference |
| Dewey: 579.175 |
| LCCN: 2009044115 |
| Series: Mycology |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 8.6" W x 11" (2.75 lbs) 426 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Pictorial Atlas of Soil and Seed Fungi: Morphologies of Cultured Fungi and Key to Species, Third Edition describes and illustrates more than 515 fungal species, including:
Dr. Watanabe describes all fungi alphabetically under the orders of Oomycota, Zygomycota, Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, and Anamorphic (Deuteromycetous) fungi. For each genus, he includes type species, references, morphology, and materials. Morphologies of cultured fungi are briefly described and illustrated together with the description of the isolation sources and methods. The book illustrates all fungi alongside morphologies and colonies of their fresh agar cultures or dried specimens, providing ready access to morphologically similar fungi for quick comparison. Most of the fungi are isolated from soil, plant roots, and seeds, and the rest are from wood-inhabiting fruiting bodies, their spores, or the spore-like structures associated with them. They are mostly collected in Japan, but some are from the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Switzerland, and Taiwan, R.O.C. |
