Advances in Fungal Biotechnology. 2009. XII, 514 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Contents: Preface. 1. Developing weed control technologies with fungi/K.L. Bailey, S.M. Boyetchko, G. Peng, R.K. Hynes, W.G. Taylor and W.M. Pitt. 2. Management of plant pathogenic fungi by mycoviruses/Laszlo Radocz. 3. Biotechnoloty: a new tack on fungal resistant crops/Neetu Dahiya. 4. Properties andcommerical applications of xylanases from fungi/Maria de Lourdes T.M. Polizeli. 5. Laccases of fungi in nature and biotechnology/Petr Baldrian. 6. Enzymes from Mushrooms and their industrial applications/Deepak K. Rahi, Sonu Rahi, A.K. Pandey and R.C. Rajak. 7. Pigments from fungi: industrial perspective/Nelson Duran, Roseli De Conti and Maria Francisca S. Teixira. 8. Microbial transformation by beauveria bassiana/Jixun Zhan and A.A. Leslie Gunatilaka. 9. Biotransformation of terpenes by fungi/Carla C.C.R. de Carvalho. 10. Molecular and physiological aspects of relevance in the design of industrial strains of lactose/Galactose-metabolising yeasts for biotechnological applications/Marta M. Rubio-Texeira. 11. Current advances in citric acid production by fungi/Maria Papagianni. 12. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi used as biofertilizers in revegetation programmes/Waldemar Zangaro, Marco A. Nogueira and Galdino Andrade. 13. Ectomycorrhizal fungi and its application in forest nursery/Miguel Marin. 14. Bioproduction and significance of fungal Vitamins/Hanna Dahm and Agnieszka Ciesielska. 15. Fungi from Indoor environments in USA: an overview/Tara Dubey. 16. Recent methods for molecular study of fungal community strutcture with special referecne to DGGE and TGGE/A. Arif Khan, Preeti Bhatnagar, Sudhir K. Jain S.K.Deshmukh and M.K. Rai. 17. Tinea capitis: Causal organisms, prognosis and therapy/Sonali Wankheded and Mahendra Raj. 18. The health implications of antifungal drugs and mycotoxin interactions in chronic toxigenic mold exposures/Ebere C. Anyanwu and ljeoma Kanu. 19. The impact of the internet on mycology/Thomas J. Volk. Index.