pictorial atlas of soil and seed fungi: morphologies of cultured fungi and key to species

ISBN-13: 9781439804193 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 426 str.

Watanabe Tsuneo Watanabe Tsune

Opis

Watanabe's book remains the only work that details information on techniques for isolating, culturing, and identifying soil and seed fungi. This new edition describes more than 350 fungal species. Contains a bonus CD-ROM, which includes color versions of all images from the book.

Spis treści

Soil and Seed Fungi Design and Usage. FUNGAL DIVERSITY AND METHODOLOGY. Diversities of Fungi. Materials and Methodology. Identification of Fungi. Key to the Genera of Fungi Glossary. MORPHOLOGY OF SOIL AND SEED FUNGI. Oomycota. Zygomycota. Ascomycota. Basidiomycota. Anamorphic Fungi: Deuteromycetes, Fungi Imperfecti, Mitosporic Fungi. References. Afterword to the Third Edition.

O autorze

Dr. Tsuneo Watanabe is an invited research scientist at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) of Japan. He received his B.A. from the University of Tokyo in 1961 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in plant pathology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and 1967. Dr. Watanabe was active as a plant pathologist and mycologist in the field of soil-borne diseases, their pathogens, and soil fungi at the National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Forestry, and Forest Products Research Institute of Japan for 30 years. Upon retirement, he engaged in one of the national projects at AIST for five years, and subsequently worked continuously as an invited research scientist.