Progress in Mycology
Contents: Preface. 1. Better yeast for better wine - genetic improvement of Saccharomyces cerevisiae wine strains/Dorit Schuller. 2. Genetics and genomics of aspergillus flavus/Jiujiang Yu, William C. Nierman, Joan W. Bennett, Thomas E. Cleveland, Deepak Bhatnagar, Bruce C. Campbell, Ralph A. Dean and Gary Payne. 3. Genetic transformation of zygomycetes fungi/Tamas Papp, Arpad Csernetics, Ildiko Nyilasi, Marianna Abrok, Csaba Vagvolgyi. 4. Current advances in aspergillosis/Amparo Sole. 5. Fungal infections of the central nervous system/Salwa Shabbir Sheikh and Samir Sami Amr. 6. Otomycosis in Turkey: a review/Muge Ozcan. 7. Current trends in fungal Rhinosinusitis/Ahmed Ragab. 8. Biodiversity of filamentous fungi on soils and sands/Azevedo E., Figueira D., Caeiro M.F., and Barata M. 9. Role of mycorrhizal fungi in growth promotion of crop plants/Sarika Shende and Mahendra Rai. 10. Ectomycorrhizal symbiosis: possibilities and prospects/Kamal Prasad. 11. Higher basidiomycetes: mushrooms as a source of antioxidants/Mikheil D. Asatiani, Vladimir Elisashvili, George Songulashvili, Abraham Z. Reznick and Solomon P. Wasser. 12. The contribution of wild fungi to diet, income and health: a world review/Miriam de Roman. 13. Mercury in certain mushroom species in Poland/Jerzy Falandysz. 14. Alcohol oxidase enzyme of methylotrophic yeasts as a basis of biosensors for detection of lower aliphatic alcohols/Reshetilov Anatoly N., Reshetilova Tatyana A. and Kitova Anna E. 15. Chitin Metabolism in fungi/Neetu Dahiya. 16. Fungi-mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles: characterization processes and applications/Nelson Duran, Priscyla D. Marcato, Avinash Ingle, Aniket Gade and Mahendra Rai.
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