Textbook of Fungi and Allied Microorganisms, 3/Ed. (PB)

The TEXTBOOK OF FUNGI AND ALLIED MICROBES is a comprehensive presentation that delves into all aspects of the fascinating world of fungi, bacteria and viruses in an insightful and penetrating manner. It is written in a language that is easy to comprehend, and the latest techniques and developments are presented in easily understandable manner.

Salient Features:

•   It contains well-illustrated life-history details of 55 genera of fungi covering the UG and PG syllabi of more     that 90% universities of the country.

•   It covers chapterwise discussion of almost all important general topics of fungi and allied microbes,  usually asked in the examination.

•  It deals with several application-based chapters such as Single-cell Protein, and Fungi and Biotechnology.

• It discusses the entire text with the help of 288 well-labelled line diagrams and more than 50 electron micrographs spared specially for this book by some top botanists of Japan, France, Denmark and Russia.

•  It compares different aspects of fungi, bacteria and viruses with the help of 25 Tables of comparison.

•  It follows classification of fungi proposed by Kirk et al (2001) and Webster and Weber (2007).

•  It provides chapterwise discussion of several lichens and some selected diseases of plants caused by fungi (18), bacteria (3) and viruses (4).

•  It includes a consolidated glossary of over 210 mycological terms.

•  It appends with answers of 387, short answer, chapter-end questions.

The book aims to provide an insight into the fundamental and basic concepts of mycology in a simple manner but also exposes the students to the complexities of the fascinating world of fungi. The book is based on the latest phylogenetic system of classification.

Highlights of the book

• Simple and readable language for easy assimilation of knowledge without too much effort by the students.
• The different groups of fungi have been presented in a taxonomic context, taking into account recent revolutionary progress in classifications based on molecular phylogeny, with additional information from physiology and ultrastructure.
• General characteristics, differences, ecology and importance of fungi have been given in tabular form bulleted form for easy reference.
• The book is profusely illustrated, with the diagrams and photographs presented in the colored format to make them easily understandable.
• Interesting readings have been presented in boxed form in several chapters to preserve and nourish the interest of the readers. These deal about controversies, curiosities and new developments in the fungal world.
• Mini glossaries are given at the end of the chapters to provide handy definitions of technical terms.
• A separate chapter on important diseases caused by fungi has been included.
• To help students apply what they have learned and stimulate additional thoughts, questions for review have been given at the end of each chapter.
• Flowcharts of classification followed in the past and the modern systems including the latest phylogenetic classification followed in the book have been given in the appendix.
• Chronology of milestones in mycological studies have been listed in the appendix.
• A consolidated glossary has been included in the appendix, giving the origin of the words and their meanings.