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 MF 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 The present book is aimed to provide the readers with current trends in the field of Mycology in general and fungal biotechnology in particular The book would be of utmost importance to students researchers and teachers of botany mycology microbiology fungal biotechnology and nanotechnology The readers should find the book full of information and reader friendly 450 pp.…