Fungi enjoy great popularity in pharmaceutical, agricultural, and biotechnological applications. Recent advances in the decipherment of whole fungal genomes promise an acceleration of these trends.
This timely book links scientists from different parts of the world who are interested in the molecular identification of fungi combined with the exploration of the fungal biodiversity in different ecosystems. It provides a compendium for scientists who rely on a rapid and reliable detection of fungal specimens in environmental as well as clinical resources in order to ensure the benefit of industrial and clinical applications.
Chapters focus on the opportunities and limits of the molecular marker-mediated identification of fungi. Various methods, procedures and strategies are outlined. Furthermore, the book offers an update of the current progress in the development of fungal molecular techniques, and draws attention to potential and associated problems, as well as integrating theory and practice.
Author(s): George Newcombe, Frank M. Dugan (auth.), Youssuf Gherbawy, Kerstin Voigt (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 501
Tags: Fungus Genetics; Biological Techniques; Eukaryotic Microbiology; Medical Microbiology; Plant Pathology; Microbial Ecology
Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Fungal Pathogens of Plants in the Homogocene....Pages 3-34
Molecular Techniques for Classification and Diagnosis of Plant Pathogenic Oomycota....Pages 35-50
Plasmodiophorids: The Challenge to Understand Soil-Borne, Obligate Biotrophs with a Multiphasic Life Cycle....Pages 51-78
Applications of Molecular Markers and DNA Sequences in Identifying Fungal Pathogens of Cool Season Grain Legumes....Pages 79-91
Quantitative Detection of Fungi by Molecular Methods: A Case Study on Fusarium ....Pages 93-105
DNA-Based Tools for the Detection of Fusarium spp. Pathogenic on Maize....Pages 107-129
Molecular Detection and Identification of Fusarium oxysporum ....Pages 131-157
Molecular Chemotyping of Fusarium graminearum, F. culmorum , and F. cerealis Isolates From Finland and Russia....Pages 159-177
Molecular Characterization and Diagnosis of Macrophomina phaseolina : A Charcoal Rot Fungus....Pages 179-193
Molecular Diagnosis of Ochratoxigenic Fungi....Pages 195-212
Molecular Barcoding of Microscopic Fungi with Emphasis on the Mucoralean Genera Mucor and Rhizopus ....Pages 213-250
Advances in Detection and Identification of Wood Rotting Fungi in Timber and Standing Trees....Pages 251-276
Molecular Diversity and Identification of Endophytic Fungi....Pages 277-296
Molecular Identification of Anaerobic Rumen Fungi....Pages 297-313
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
New Approaches in Fungal DNA Preparation from Whole Blood and Subsequent Pathogen Detection Via Multiplex PCR....Pages 317-335
Classification of Yeasts of the Genus Malassezia by Sequencing of the ITS and D1/D2 Regions of DNA....Pages 337-355
DNA-Based Detection of Human Pathogenic Fungi: Dermatophytes, Opportunists, and Causative Agents of Deep Mycoses....Pages 357-415
Applications of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplificaton Methods (LAMP) for Identification and Diagnosis of Mycotic Diseases: Paracoccidioidomycosis and Ochroconis gallopava infection....Pages 417-437
Identification of the Genus Absidia (Mucorales, Zygomycetes): A Comprehensive Taxonomic Revision....Pages 439-460
Molecular Characters of Zygomycetous Fungi....Pages 461-488
Back Matter....Pages 489-501
