Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality: 2016 (The Mycota)

This new edition offers

detailed overviews covering

a wide area of fungal growth and reproduction on the mechanistic and molecular

level. It includes 18 chapters by eminent scientists in the field and is - like

the previous edition - divided into the three sections: Vegetative Processes and Growth, Signals in Growth and Development, and Reproductive Processes. Major topics of

the first section include dynamic intracellular processes, apical growth,

hyphal fusion, and aging. The second section analyses autoregulatory signals,

pheromone action, and photomorphogenesis and gravitropism abiotic signals. The

third section reveals details of asexual and sexual development in various

fungal model systems, culminating in fruit body formation in basidiomycetes,

which is a sector of growing economic potential.



Since the publication of the first edition of this volume in 1994 and the

second edition in 2006, the field of fungal biology has continued to expand thanks

to improvements in omics technologies and the application of genetic tools to

an increasing variety of fungal models. Several additional chapters by a new

generation of fungal biologists discuss this diversity and guarantee lively

reading.

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