Tropical Mycology

About this book

Important review of current knowledge, with contributions covering mycology in Thailand, Chile, India, Israel and Southeast Asia.

Contents

Evaluation of fungal biological diversity in the tropics - systematics perspectives; inventorying a tropical fungal biota - intensive and extensive approaches; observations on subtropical fungi on driftwood from mangroves and sandy beaches in the Pearl River Estuary; hyphomycetous and coelomycetous genera (fungi imperfect) with a Gondwanian origin; contribution to a study of soil micromycetes of Israel; biscogniauxia, camillea and hypoxylon (ascomycetes) in Southeast Asia; microfungal communities on decaying pine needles in Thailand; the distribution of resupinate aphyllophorales in Tamil Nadu; an overview on the tropical fungi from Mexico; a new species of staphylotrichum from Chile; fungal endophytes of grasses - incidence and distribution in India; freshwater hyphomycetes - a survey with remarks on tropical taxa; myxomycetes in the tropics - distribution and ecology; population growth of tribolium confusum (coleoptera - tenebrionidae) on wheat moulded with wild versus domesticated "koji" strains of aspergillus flavus; molecular systematics of yeast and yeast-like fungi; toxigenic alternarias as food contaminants and their biological effects; the ecology of thermophilic fungi; micro-organisms in wasteland development; cryptococcosis and the ecology of cr. neoformans in tropical countries; tropical subcutaneous mycoses - an overview on the aetiology and epidemitology in India.

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