Illustrative Morühology of Agricultural Important Fungi. 2023. illus. 272 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

In this book, the morphological illustrations are shown for the identification of different groups of agriculturally important fungi isolated from soil, seeds and plant materials. Many of these fungi influence plant growth and thereby its yield. Descriptions and photo-micrographs of these fungi are helpful for the identification of fungi and thereby disease diagnosis. However, only a few books are available with pictorial morphological descriptions for different groups of fungi. In the plant pathological fields, mycological studies are a prerequisite to determining the causal agents of the diseases, including isolations, preservation, classification and identification.

The fungi illustrated in this book were isolated, purified and preserved during their morphological characterization studies. Many of the given fungi are important plant pathogens but some of them are not pathogenic to plants. These saprophytic fungi have been studied to find effective biocontrol agents among them. Since biocontrol practices are being used widely in the current scenario of organic farming to control plant diseases, many of biocontrol fungal species have been included in this publication. In this book, 195 species of fungi that have been studied mycologically were described with illustrations.