Chemical Fungal Taxonomy

Offers comprehensive coverage of various developments in both biochemical and physiological approaches to fungal systematics. This book incorporates various advances in molecular biology into systematics methods.

Offers comprehensive coverage of the latest developments in both biochemical and physiological approaches to fungal systematics. Incorporates recent advances in molecular biology into systematics methods that can revolutionize taxonomic schemes.

Chemical fungal taxonomy - an overview
numerical analysis of fungal chemotaxonomic data
use of PCR and RFLP in fungal systematics
proteins in fungal taxonomy
the use of isoenzymes in fungal taxonomy and population studies
fungal immunotaxonomy
taxonomic applications of polysaccharides
chemotaxonomy of fungi by unsaponifiable lipids
fatty acids in fungal taxonomy
carbohydrates and their impact on fungal taxonomy
volatiles in fungal taxonomy
the role and use of secondary metabolites in fungal taxonomy
expression of secondary metabolite characters in relation to the conditions of growth
the taxonomic use of metabolic data in lichen-forming fungi.