Molecular Fungal Biology

by Edited by Richard P. Oliver , Michael Schweizer

• ISBN13: 9780521561167
• ISBN10: 0521561167
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Fungi are a diverse group of organisms, studied widely because of their commercial importance in biotechnology, agriculture, and medicine, and because they provide simple model systems for illuminating the eukaryotic mode of life. The advancement of techniques in molecular biology has opened up new areas of mycological research, with important consequences such as the sequencing of the first entire eukaryotic genome. This book focuses on the application of molecular and cell biology to mycology and presents examples of how these approaches are elucidating long-held problems in areas as diverse as animal and plant pathology, protein expression, and evolution. Aimed at advanced undergraduates taking courses in mycology, applied biology, biotechnology, fungal biology and fungal genetics, this textbook will also serve postgraduates needing an introduction to modern fungal research.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii	(2)
Preface	ix
1 Fungi: important organisms in history and today	1	(20)
M. WEDDE
M. JACOBS
U. STAHL
2 Fungal phylogeny	21	(57)
M.L. BERBEE
J.W. TAYLOR
3 The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: insights from the first complete eukaryotic genome sequence	78	(57)
H. FELDMANN
4 Interactions between pathway-specific and global genetic regulation and the control of pathway flux	135	(29)
A. N. HAWKINS
K.A. WHEELER
L.J. LEVETT
G.H. NEWTON
H. K. LAMB
5 Hyphal cell biology	164	(21)
G. ROBSON
6 Asexual sporulation: conidiation	185	(24)
T.H. ADAMS
J.K. WIESER
7 Fungal cell division	209	(22)
C. PITT
J. DOONAN
8 Sexual development of higher fungi	231	(41)
S.-W. CHIU
D. MOORE
9 Lignocellulose breakdown and utilization by fungi	272	(22)
M. PENTTILA
M. SALOHEIMO
10 Plant disease caused by fungi: phytopathogenicity	294	(28)
P. BOWYER
11 Fungi as animal pathogens	322	(19)
S. HOSKING
12 Biotechnology of filamentous fungi: applications of molecular biology	341	(24)
D.B. ARCHER
Index	365