Molecular Variability of Fungal Pathogens
Edited by P D Bridge, CABI BIOSCIENCE, UK Centre, Egham, UK; Y Couteaudier, INRA, France, and J M Clarkson, University of Bath, UK
Pub Date: August 1998
Hardback
336 pages
Readership
Postgraduate students and research scientists in applied mycology, including plant pathology, medical mycology and biological control.
Main Description
This volume contains a series of contributions from established European researchers which consider aspects of molecular variability in fungal pathogens. Chapters are derived from a workshop held in Evian, France, in September 1997, supported by the EU Concerted Action Air 3-CT94-2448. The volume is divided into three sections. The first includes contributions which consider and review the major mechanisms involved, the second details specific studies on variability in populations of different fungal pathogens, and the third includes contributions on methods for interpreting such variability.
The workshop was intended to bring together methods and understanding from a wide range of fungal pathogens, and this is reflected in the volume where individual contributions include case studies and reviews of populations of fungi pathogenic on insects and nematodes as well as plant and human pathogens. The combination of mechanisms, characterisation and interpretation across a wide range of applied mycology makes this a significant general text for those working on molecular characterisation. The broad spectrum of topics provides a multidisciplinary reference source within mycology and the book will be suitable for postgraduate students and research scientists in applied mycology, including plant pathology, medical mycology and biological control.
Main Contents
• Contributors
• Foreword, Ulrich Kόck
• Molecular Variability of Fungal Pathogens: Using the Rice Blast Fungus as a Case Study, N J Talbot
• Molecular Variability in Sexually Reproducing Fungal Plant Pathogens, J M Duncan, D Cooke, P Birch and R Toth
• Parasexuality in Fungi: Mechanisms and Significance in Wild Populations, A J M Debets
• Molecular Variability of Viruses of Fungi, K W Buck
• Activator-like Transposons in Beauveria Species, U Kόck, S Jacobsen and F Kempken
• Fungal Pathogenesis in Insects, J Clarkson, S Screen, A Bailey, B Cobb and K Charnley
• Combination of Different Independent Molecular Markers to Understand the Genetic Structure of Beauveria Populations, Y Couteaudier, M Viaud and C Neuvιglise
• Assessing Diversity in Colletotrichum and Trichodera Species Using Molecular Markers, P R Mills, S Sreenivasaprasad and S Muthumeenakshi
• Variability in the Human Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus, J P Latgι, J P Debeaupuis, J Sarfati and S Paris
• Reproduction and Population Structure in Phytopathogenic Fungi, Y Brygoo, V Caffier, J Carlier, Jean-Vincent Fabre, D Fernandez, T Giraud, X Mourichon, C Neema, Jean-Loup Notteghem, C Pope, D Tharreau and Marc-Henri Lebrun
• Variation in the Subtilisins of Fungal Pathogens of Insects and Nematodes, T M Butt, R Segers, S C Leal and B R Kerry
• Metabolites Influencing Pathogenicity of Nematophagous Fungi, L V Lopez-Llorca and C Olivares-Bernabeu
• Sources of Molecular Variability and Applications in Characterization of the Plant Pathogen Fusarium oxysporum, S L Woo and M Lorito
• Variability of Human Pathogenic Fungi, D Sullivan and D Coleman
• Mitochondrial DNA Differences Provide Maximum Intraspecific Polymorphism in the Entomopathogenic Fungi Verticillium lecanii and Metarhizium anisopliae and Allow Isolate Detection/Identification, M A Typas, A Mavridou and V Kouvelis
• RAPD-PCR for the Molecular Characterization of Beauveria brongniartii Isolates Useful as Biocontrol Agents of the European Cockchafer Melolontha melolontha, O I Ozino, P Piatti and F Cravanzola
• Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetic Implications of ITS Sequence in Plants and in Fungi, J Mugnier
• Neural Network Approaches to Interpreting Variability, L Boddy, C W Morris, A Morgan and L Al-Haddad
• Numerical Analysis of Molecular Variability: A Comparison of Hierarchic and Non-hierarchic Methods, P Bridge
• Index
