An Introduction to Mycology

The book incorporates in a comparative manner the various important classifications of fungi given by different workers. It deals with the morphology, taxonomy, life cycles of various groups of fungi and also includes the disease cycle and control measures of fungal pathogens, responsible for causing diseases of national as well as international importance. The book has been written to cater to the needs of Honours and Postgraduate students of Indian Universities. The aim of the book is to bring in all the recent information in fungi in one volume.? General topics like heterothallism, parasexual cycle, sex hormones, evolutionary tendencies in lower fungi, evolution of conidium from a sporangium, sexuality in Ascomycetes with special reference to degeneration and modification of sex organs, phylogeny of fungi have been discussed at length. Important topics like ecology, economic importance of fungi in various ways, applications of fungi in Biotechnology and fungi as symbionts of photobionts, plants and insects has also been discussed in detail. Appendices like important text and reference books, mycoiogical journals, fungal culture collection centres of the world, mounting media and common culture media for fungi have been included. About The Dr. R.S. Mehrotra is a Ph.D. from the University of Saugor (now Dr. Hari Singh Gour University). He retired as Professor of Botany, Kurukshetra University in the year 1997. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada (1968-1970) and a Fulbright Fellow at the University of California, Riverside, USA (1979). He has vast teaching and research experience of more than 35 years. Dr. Mehrotra and his research associates have done work on various aspects of Soil Microbiology (including root diseases), post-harvest diseases, toxin