Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds / / George W. Hudler.
Mushrooms magically spew forth from the earth in the hours that follow a summer rain. Fuzzy brown molds mischievously turn forgotten peaches to slime in the kitchen fruit bowl. And in thousands of other ways, members of the kingdom Fungi do their part to make life on Earth the miracle that it is. In...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1. Classification and Naming
- CHAPTER 2. What Fungi Do and How They Do It
- CHAPTER 3. Fungi as Pathogens of Food Crops
- CHAPTER 4. Fungi as Agents of Catastrophic Tree Diseases
- CHAPTER 5. Ergot of Grain Crops
- CHAPTER 6. Mycotoxins: Toxic By-Products ofFungal Growth
- CHAPTER 7. Mycoses: Fungus Diseases of Humans
- CHAPTER 8. Medicinal Molds
- CHAPTER 9. Yeasts for Baking and Brewing
- CHAPTER 10. Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms
- CHAPTER 11. Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
- CHAPTER 12. Wood Decay
- CHAPTER 13. Interactions of Fungi and Insects
- CHAPTER 14. Symbiotic Relationships of Fungi with Plants
- EPILOGUE
- NOTES
- INDEX