Fungi in the Environment (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gadd, Geoffrey

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Produktbeschreibung

Fungi are of fundamental importance in the terrestrial environment. They have roles as decomposers, plant pathogens, symbionts, and in elemental cycles. Fungi are often dominant, and in soil can comprise the largest pool of biomass (including other microorganisms and invertebrates). They also play a role in maintenance of soil structure due to their filamentous growth habit and exopolymer production. Despite their important roles in the biosphere, fungi are frequently neglected within broader environmental and microbiological spheres. Additionally, mycological interests can be somewhat fragmented between traditional subject boundaries. This multi-disciplinary volume explores the roles and importance of fungi in the environment. Particular emphasis is given to major research advances made in recent years as a result of molecular and genomic approaches, and in cell imaging and biology. Drawing together microbiologists, mycologists, and environmental scientists, this work is a unique account of modern environmental mycology, and a pivotal contribution to the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511271311
• Artikelnr.: 38209587

Autorenporträt

Geoff Gadd is Professor of Microbiology and Head of the Division of Environmental and Applied Biology at the University of Dundee.
S. C. WATKINSON is Research Lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences, and Tutor in Biology at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford.
Paul Dyer is a Lecturer in the School of Biology at The University of Nottingham.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Imaging complex nutrient dynamics in mycelial networks D. P. Bebber, M.
Tlalka, J. Hynes, P. R. Darrah, A. Ashford, S. C. Watkinson, L. Boddy and
M. D. Fricker; 2. Natural history of the fungal hypha: how Woronin bodies
support a multicellular lifestyle Gregory Jedd; 3. Environmental sensing
and the filamentous fungal lifestyle Nick D. Read; 4. Mineral
transformations and biogeochemical cycles: a gomycological perspective
Geoffrey M. Gadd, Euan P. Burford, Marina Fomina and Karrie Melville; 5.
Mycelial responses in heterogeneous environments: parallels with
macroorganisms Lynne Boddy and T. Hefin Jones; 6. Natural abundance of 15N
and 13C in saprotrophic fungi: what can they tell us? Andy F. S. Taylor and
Petra M. A. Fransson; 7. Berkeley Award Lecture: mathematical modelling of
the form and function of fungal mycelia Fordyce A. Davidson; 8. Mycorrhizas
and the terrestrial carbon cycle: roles in global carbon sequestration and
plant community composition Jonathan R. Leake; 9. Water relations in
lichens Rosmarie Honegger; 10. Development of the arbuscular mycorrhizal
symbiosis: insights from genomics Jinyuan Liu, Melina Lopez-Meyer, Ignacio
Maldonado-Mendoza and Maria J. Harrison; 11. Functional genomics of plant
infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea Joanna M. Jenkinson,
Richard Wilson, Zachary Cartwright, Darren M. Soanes, Michael J. Kershaw,
Amy E. Davies and Nicholas J. Talbot; 12. Exploring the interaction between
nematode-trapping fungi and nematodes using DNA microarrays Anders Tunlid;
13. Role of (1-3) glucan in Aspergillus fumigatus and other human fungal
pathogens Anne Beauvais, David S. Perlin and Jean Paul Latgé; 14. Plagues
upon houses and cars: the unnatural history of Meruliporia incrassata,
Serpula lacrymans, and Sphaerobolus stellatus Nicholas P. Money; 15. Fungal
species: thoughts on their recognition, maintenance and selection John W.
Taylor, Elizabeth Turner, Anne Pringle, Jeremy Dettman, and Hanna
Johannesson; 16. Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) and Multilocus
Microsatellite Typing (MLMT) in fungi Matthew C. Fisher; 17. Fungi in the
hidden environment: the gut of beetles Meredith Blackwell, Sung-Oui Suh and
James B. Nardi; 18. A saltmarsh decomposition system and its ascomycetous
laccase genes Steven Y. Newell, Justine I. Lyons and Mary Ann Moran.