Applied Mycology Edited by Mahendra Rai and Paul Dennis Bridge

Table of Contents
Part I: Overview
1 Mycology: a Neglected Megascience
David L. Hawksworth
Part II: Environment, Agriculture and Forestry
2 Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Symbiosis under Stress Conditions: Ecological Implications of Drought, Flooding and Salinity
Ileana V. García and Rodolfo E. Mendoza
3 An Overview of Ochratoxin Research
János Varga, Sándor Kocsubé, Zsanett Péteri and Robert A. Samson
4 Improvement of Controlled Mycorrhizal Usage in Forest Nurseries
Robin Duponnois, D. Diouf, A. Galiana and Y. Prin
5 Fungi in the Tree Canopy: an Appraisal
K.R. Sridhar
6 Ecology of Endophytic Fungi Associated with Leaf Litter Decomposition
Takashi Osono and Dai Hirose
Part III: Food, Food Products and Medicine
7 Brewing Yeast in Action: Beer Fermentation
Pieter J. Verbelen and Freddy R. Delvaux
8 Genomic Adaptation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to Inhibitors for Lignocellulosic Biomass Conversion to Ethanol
Zonglin Lewis Liu and Mingzhou Song
9 Spoilage Yeasts and Other Fungi: their Roles in Modern Enology
Manuel Malfeito-Ferreira and Virgilio Loureiro
10 Medicinal Potential of Ganoderma lucidum
Daniel Sliva
11 Current Advances in Dematiaceous Mycotic Infections
Sanjay G. Revankar
Part IV: Biotechnology and Emerging Science
12 Biotechnological Aspects of Trichoderma spp.
A.M. Rincón, T. Benítez, A.C. Codón and M.A. Moreno-Mateos
13 Agrobacterium tumefaciens as a Molecular Tool for the Study of Fungal Pathogens
Carol M. McClelland and Brian L. Wickes
14 Myconanotechnology: a New and Emerging Science
Mahendra Rai, Alka Yadav, Paul Bridge and Aniket Gade
15 Current Advances in Fungal Chitinases
Duochuan Li and Anna Li
16 Extracellular Proteases of Mycoparasitic and Nematophagous Fungi
László Kredics, Sándor Kocsubé, Zsuzsanna Antal, Lóránt Hatvani, László Manczinger and Csaba Vágvölgyi