Main description:

This volume covers the high relevance of fungi for agriculture. It is a completely updated and revised second edition with fourteen excellent chapters by leading scientists in their fields and offers a comprehensive review of the latest achievements and developments.

Topics include: Food and fodder; fungal secondary metabolites and detoxification; biology, disease control and management; symbiontic fungi and mycorrhiza; and phytopathogenicity.

Contents:

Food and Fodder

1 Genetics and Genomics of the Cultivated Mushrooms, Application to Breeding of Agarics

Jean-Michel Savoie, Marie Foulongne-Oriol, Gerard Barroso, Philippe Callac

2 Fungal spoilage of crops and food

Jan Dijksterhus, Jos Houbrken, and Robert A. Samson

Fungal Secondary Metabolites and Detoxification

3 Genetics, Biosynthesis and Regulation of Aflatoxins and other Aspergillus flavus Secondary Metabolites
Saori Amaike, Katharyn J. Affeldt, and Nancy P. Keller

4 Fungal Toxins of Agricultural Importance
Richard D. Johnson, Yasunori Akagi, Damien J. Fleetwood, Donald M. Gardiner, Motoichiro Kodama, Carolyn A. Young and Christine R. Voisey

5 Organopollutant Degradation by Wood Decay Basidiomycetes
Yitzhak Hadar and Daniel Cullen

Biology, Disease Control and Management

6 Biological Control of Weeds with Fungi
Harry C. Evans

7 Disease Management of Phoma Infections
Johannes Woestemeyer

8 Biology, Diversity and Management of FHB-Causing Fusarium Species in Small-Grain Cereals
Rayko Becher, Thomas Miedaner and Stefan G. R. Wirsel

9 Ecological and Economical Importance of Parasitic Zoosporic True Fungi
Kerstin Voigt, Agostina V. Marano and Frank H. Gleason

Symbiontic Fungi and Mycorrhiza

10 New Insights into Ectomycorrhizal Symbiosis Evolution and Function
Claire Veneault-Fourrey and Francis Martin

11 Ectomycorrhiza-Specific Gene Expression

Erika Kothe, Ines Schlunk, Dominik Senftleben, and Katrin Krause

Phytopathogenicity

12 Rust Fungi: Achievements and Future Challenges on Genomics and Host-Parasite Interactions
Diana Fernandez, Pedro Talhinhas, Sebastien Duplessis

13 The Biotrophy - Necrotrophy Switch in Fungal Pathogenesis
Ralf Horbach and Holger B. Deising

14 Pectin as a Barrier and Nutrient Source for Fungal Plant Pathogens
Lisha Zhang, Jan A.L. van Kan