| Edition |
4th ed. |
| Physical description |
x, 868 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Kingdom Fungi Introduction to Fungi and Their Significance to Humans -- Ch. 2. Characteristics of Fungi -- Ch. 3. Fungal Systematics -- Ch. 4. Phylum Chytridiomycota -- Ch. 5. Phylum Zygomycota: Class Zygomycetes -- Ch. 6. Phylum Zygomycota: Class Trichomycetes -- Ch. 7. Phylum Ascomycota: Introduction to Ascomycetes -- Ch. 8. Deuteromycetes: Asexual Ascomycetes and Other Asexual Fungi -- Ch. 9. Phylum Ascomycota: Archiascomycetes -- Ch. 10. Phylum Ascomycota: Order Saccharomycetales - The Ascomycetous Yeasts -- Ch. 11. Phylum Ascomycota: Filamentous Ascomycetes - Order Eurotiales and Related Species -- Ch. 12. Phylum Ascomycota: Filamentous Ascomycetes - Pyrenomycetes; Ascomycetes with Perithecia -- Ch. 13. Class Ascomycetes: Filamentous Ascomycetes with Apothecia - Discomycetes -- Ch. 14. Phylum Ascomycota: Filamentous Ascomycetes with Ascostromata - Loculoascomycetes -- Ch. 15. Phylum Ascomycota: Other Filamentous Ascomycetes. |
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Ch. 16. Phylum Basidiomycota: Introduction to the Basidiomycetes -- Ch. 17. Phylum Basidiomycota: Order Agaricales - The Mushrooms -- Ch. 18. Phylum Basidiomycota: Gasteromycetes - The Puffballs, Earthstars, Stinkhorns, and Bird's Nest Fungi -- Ch. 19. Phylum Basidiomycota: Order Aphyllophorales - Polypores, Chantharelles, Tooth Fungi, Coral Fungi, and Corticioids -- Ch. 20. Phylum Basidiomycota: Order Uredinales - The Rust Fungi -- Ch. 21. Phylum Basidiomycota: Order Ustilaginales - The Smut Fungi -- Ch. 22. Phylum Basidiomycota: Other Basidiomycetes -- Ch. 23. Phylum Oomycota -- Ch. 24. Phylum Hyphochytriomycota -- Ch. 25. Phylum Labyrinthulomycota: Net Slime Molds -- Ch. 26. Phylum Plasmodiophoromycota: Endoparasitic Slime Molds -- Ch. 27. Phylum Dictyosteliomycota: Dictyostelid Cellular Slime Molds -- Ch. 28. Phylum Acrasiomycota: Acrasid Cellular Slime Molds -- Ch. 29. Phylum Myxomycota: True Slime Molds. |
| Summary |
Updated and revised to accurately reflect what is currently known about the biology of fungi. The primary thrust of the book is morphology-taxonomy, but also includes interesting and important activities of fungi. |
| Other author |
Mims, Charles W.
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Blackwell, Meredith.
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| Subject |
Mycology.
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| ISBN |
0471522295 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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