{"product_id":"the-fungal-kingdom-isbn-9781555819576","title":"The Fungal Kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003eFungi research and knowledge grew rapidly following recent advances in genetics and genomics. This book synthesizes new knowledge with existing information to stimulate new scientific questions and propel fungal scientists on to the next stages of research. This book is a comprehensive guide on fungi, environmental sensing, genetics, genomics, interactions with microbes, plants, insects, and humans, technological applications, and natural product development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eSection I: Fungal Branches on the Eukaryotic Tree of Life: 1. The fungal tree of life: from molecular systematics to genomescale phylogenics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Six key traits of fungi: their evolutionary origins and genetic bases\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. What defines the \"kingdom\" fungi?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Fungal diversity revisited: 2.2 to 3.8 million species\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Microsporidia: obligate intracellular pathogens within the fungal kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection II: Life of Fungi: 6. Fungal sex: the Ascomycota\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Fungal sex: The Basidiomycota\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Fungal Sex: The Mucoromycota\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Sex and the imperfect fungi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Molecular mechanisms regulating cell fusion and heterokaryon formation in filamentous fungi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Cell biology of hyphal growth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The fungal cell wall: structure, biosynthesis, and function\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Fungal ecology: principles and mechanisms of colonization and competition by saprotrophic fungi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Longdistance dispersal of fungi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The mycelium as a network\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection III: Fungal Ecology: 16. The geomycology of elemental cycling and transformations in the environment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Ecology of fungal plant pathogens\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Key ecological roles for zoosporic true fungi in aquatic habitats\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection IV: How Fungi Sense Their Environment: 19. Nutrient sensing at the plasma membrane of fungal cells\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. The complexity of fungal vision\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Stress adaptation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Thigmo responses: the fungal sense of touch\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Melanin, radiation, and energy transduction in fungi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Making time: conservation of biological clocks from fungi to animals\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. Target of rapamycin (TOR) regulates growth in response to nutritional signals\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection V: Fungal Genetics and Genomics as Models for Biology: 26. Fungal cell cycle: a unicellular versus multicellular comparison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. A matter of scale and dimensions: chromatin of chromosome landmarks in the fungi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. Ploidy variation in fungi: polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genome evolution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Fungal genomes and insights into the evolution of the kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. Sources of fungal genetic variation and associating it with phenotypic diversity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. RNA interference in fungi: retention and loss\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Amyloid prions in fungi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Repeatinduced point mutation and other genome defense mechanisms in fungi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection VI: Fungal Interactions with Plants: Impact on Agriculture and the Biosphere: 34. Plant pathogenic fungi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. The mutualistic interaction between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. Lichenized fungi and the evolution of symbiotic organization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. Fungal plant pathogenesis mediated by effectors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. Emerging fungal threats to plants and animals challenge agriculture and ecosystem resilience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection VII: Fungi and the Human Host: 39. Fungi that infect humans\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. The mycobiome: impact on health and disease states\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. Skin fungi from colonization to infection\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. Fungal biofilms: inside out\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. Fungal recognition and host defense mechanisms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. Antifungal drugs: the current armamentarium and development of new agents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection VIII: Fungal Interactions with Animals (Fungi, Insects, and Nematodes) and Other Microbes: 45. The insect pathogens\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46. Made for each other: ascomycete yeasts and insects\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47. Nematodetrapping fungi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48. Hostmicrosporidia interactions in Caenorhabiditis elegans, a model nematode host\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49. Bacterial endosymbionts: master modulators of fungal phenotypes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50. Necrotrophic mycoparasites and their genomes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection IX: Fungi: Technology and Natural Products: 51. Fungal enzymes and yeasts for conversion of plant biomass to bioenergy and highvalue products\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52. Fungal ligninolytic enzymes and their applications\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53. Fungi as a source of food\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54. Biologically active secondary metabolites from the fungi.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003eREVIEW 1\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003eThis large format volume, weighing a hefty 2.8 kg, has taken about four years to prepare. It represents an enormous undertaking, which has involved over 170 mycologists and other researchers. A nine-section structure was worked out by the team of six editors, who stated that it was their “hope, and our goal and intention, that this book both takes stock of the current state of knowledge in the field and also spurs further investigation” (p. xxi). By mid-2015 the scope of each of the 54 chapters had been sketched out and contributors' names that had tentatively been pencilled-in started to be invited. In order to make the task manageable, the sections were assigned to particular editors, each of whom had the responsibility of securing the delivery of contributions and having them reviewed and revised. Chapters necessarily proceeded at different rates, but when they had been completed, they were published online in final form (apart from pagination) on the American Society for Microbiology's Microbiology Spectrum site so that they could start to be used and cited from that source. As anyone who has ever edited a multi-authored volume will know, such works inevitably proceed to completion at the rate of the slowest. It was only after that point was reached in 2017 that the book could finally be put together, paginated, indexed, bound and published.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003eThe nine sections decided upon were: (1) Fungal branches on the eukaryotic tree of life (5 chapters); (2) Life of fungi (10); (3) Fungal ecology (3); (4) How fungi sense their environment (7); (5) Fungal genetics and genomics as models for biology (8); (6) Fungal interactions with plants: impact on agriculture and the biosphere (5); (7) Fungi and the human host (6); (8) Fungal interactions with animals (fungi, insects, and nematodes) and other microbes (6); and (9) Fungal technology and natural products (4).\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003eIt would be invidious to highlight particular chapters here, but in general I have found them not to be only dry reviews, but also to contain new syntheses and insights into many of them; a consequence of the editors having gone to great efforts to secure the world leaders in the assigned topics where possible. Indeed, the list of contributors reads rather like a Who's Who of mycology.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003eThe whole is well-presented with numerous figures, many of which are in colour, and all chapters have extensive reference lists. The price is far from unreasonable for such a massive hard-bound work, and as this is a real vade mecum for mycology all mycological libraries should acquire a copy, and I am sure most mycologists will also aspire to own one. The editors are to be congratulated on this truly momentous achievement.\"\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003e-BOOK NEWS REVIEW (NO INDIVIDUAL REVIEWER NOTED)\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003eREVIEW 2\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003eA fabulous book that presents a broad overview of our current knowledge of the fungi, with individual chapters written by leading scientists and assembled by an editorial panel of distinguished mycologists. A wonderful resource for anyone interested in the fungal kingdom.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003e-Bruce McDonald,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003e Plant Pathology, Institute of Integrative Biology, Zurich\"\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-CA\"\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Fungal Kingdom\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst Edition \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFungi research and knowledge grew rapidly following recent advances in genetics and genomics. This book synthesizes new knowledge with existing information to stimulate new scientific questions and propel fungal scientists on to the next stages of research. This book is a comprehensive guide on fungi, environmental sensing, genetics, genomics, interactions with microbes, plants, insects, and humans, technological applications, and natural product development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ASM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990233792741,"sku":"NP9781555819576","price":205.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781555819576.jpg?v=1761787012","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-fungal-kingdom-isbn-9781555819576","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}