The Mycota - Systematics and Evolution. Part B VII. A Comprehensive Treatise on Fungi as Experimental Systems for Basic and Applied Research.

Esser, McLaughlin, D. J.; McLaughlin, E. G.; Lemke, P. A. (Eds.)

ISBN 10: 3540664939 / ISBN 13: 9783540664932

Published by Berlin, Springer., 2001

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XX, 259 S. , Ill. Hardcover. Versand aus Deutschland / We dispatch from Germany via Air Mail. Einband bestoßen, daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover, apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Stamped. The Mycota; Vol. VII. Sprache: Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mycota - Systematics and Evolution. Part B VII. A Comprehensive Treatise on Fungi as Experimental Systems for Basic and Applied Research.
• Publisher: Berlin, Springer.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540664939
• ISBN 13: 9783540664932
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biologie

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Synopsis

Mycology, the study of fungi, originated as a subdiscipline of botany and was a des­ criptive discipline, largely neglected as an experimental science until the early years of this century. A seminal paper by Blakeslee in 1904 provided evidence for self­ incompatibility, termed "heterothallism", and stimulated interest in studies related to the control of sexual reproduction in fungi by mating-type specificities. Soon to follow was the demonstration that sexually reproducing fungi exhibit Mendelian inheritance and that it was possible to conduct formal genetic analysis with fungi. The names Burgetf, Kniep and Lindegren are all associated with this early period of fungal genet­ ics research. These studies and the discovery of penicillin by Fleming, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1945, provided further impetus for experimental research with fungi. Thus began a period of interest in mutation induction and analysis of mutants for biochemical traits. Such fundamental research, conducted largely with Neurospora crassa, led to the one gene: one enzyme hypothesis and to a second Nobel Prize for fungal research awarded to Beadle and Tatum in 1958. Fundamental research in biochemical genetics was extended to other fungi, especially to Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and by the mid-1960s fungal systems were much favored for studies in eukaryotic molecular biology and were soon able to compete with bacterial systems in the molecular arena.