Contents: 1. Mycobiocontrol in crop production/P.D. Sharma. 2. Microbes in the management of insect pests/R.C. Rajak and G.P. Agarwal. 3. Microbiological control of insect pests of sugarcane in India/Ashok Varma and V.P. Agnihotri. 4. Exploitation of fungi for nematode control/S.K. Saxena and Rekha Arya. 5. Mycorrhiza and forestry: an appraisal/ Hari Chand and B.L. Jalali. 6. Mycorrhiza and plant disease control/D.K. Jha, G.D. Sharma and R.R. Mishra. 7. Soil pollutants and their effects on soil microflora/S. Jariwala, A. Chandra, R.S. Upadhyay and Bharat Rai. 8. Degradation for plant tissues by fungal emzymes/Archana Mehta and K.M. Vyas. 9. Fungal deterioration of paper materials/Shashi Dhawan and K.L. Garg. 10. Phytophthora taxonomy; a recent approach/R.S. Mehrotra and Navneet. 11. Abnormal growth in plants: host-pathogen interaction and physiology/H.C. Arya, U. Kant, Sarita Arya and D.V. Rao. 12. Fungal resistance to fungicides/S.B. Sullia and G. Padma. 13. Some medically important genera of dematiaceous hyphomycetes/S.M. Singh and Jaishree Naidu. 14. Ecology of soil inhabiting Keratinophilic fungi with special reference to Chrysosporium/Neeta Nigam and R.K.S. Kushwaha. 15. Clinical and experimental ocular mycosis/P.K. Shukla and Z.K. Khan. 16. Fungi biotechnology in industry and agriculture/Sushma Gupta and Dillip K. Arora. 17. Immobilized fungal cell system techniques and applications/B.N. Johri, S. Ahmad and Joachim Klein. 18. Inputs of science aned technology in reclamation of wastelands/Sudhir Chandra and Harbans Kaur Kehri. 19. DNA Probe in diagnostic biotechnology/Dilip K. Arora and Sushma Gupta. 20. Biological effects of Ergot Alkaloids/Z. Rehacek and P. Mehta. 21. Essential oils of higher plants as storage fungitoxicants/N.K. Dubey, N. Kishore and A.K. Mishra. 22. Mycotoxins-chemical, Biological and environmental aspects/K.S. Bilgrami and K.K. Sinha.

"There is an obvious need for a comprehensive treatment of the basis principles, methods and applications of mycology as an applied, integrated and multidisciplinary subject. This book presents detailed information on the ecology, molecular biology and biotechnology of fungi highlighting their role in agriculture, industry and medicine. This reference work highlights important applications of fungi to expanding biotechnological research covering diverse topics ranging from mycorrhizae, biological control, medical mycology, microbial ecology, physiology and biochemistry and molecular biology. This chapters, contributed by over 30 leading international experts, cover current knowledge on topics often neglected by publications in the fields of fungal ecology and biotechnology. The present volume should serve as timely reading at research level for mycologists, microbiologists, microbial ecologists, plant pathologists and biotechnologists as well as for postgraduate students of these disciplines." [Jacket]

[Bharat Rai is a Professor of Botany (Microbiology) at the Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Banaras Hindu University.]

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