1st Edition
Ecology of Macrofungi An Overview
Preface
- Ecology of Macrofungi - An Overview
Kandikere R. Sridhar and Sunil K. Deshmukh
FOREST MACROFUNGI
2. The Roles of Macrofungi in Humid Tropical Forests and the Effects of Disturbances
D. Jean Lodge and Sharon A. Cantrell
3. Ecological Aspects of Ammonia Fungi in Various Vegetation Sites
Akira Suzuki and Neale L. Bougher
4. Ecology of Wild Mushrooms
Hoda M. El-Gharabawy
5. Ecology of Macrofungi in Southwest India
Kandikere R. Sridhar
ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI
6. Mycogeography and Ecology of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in Northern México
Fortunato Garza Ocañas, Miroslava Quiñonez Martínez, Lourdes Garza Ocañas, Artemio Carrillo Parra, Jesús García Jiménez, Gonzalo Guevara Guerrero, Ricardo Valenzuela Garza, Mario García Aranda, Javier de la Fuente, Gerardo Cuellar Rodríguez and José Guadalupe Martínez Avalos
7. On the Amanita in Southwest India
Kandikere R. Sridhar, Shivannegowda Mahadevakumar and Namera C. Karun
WOOD-INHABITING MACROFUNGI
8. Substrate Ecology of Wood-Inhabiting Basidiomycetes
Ivan V. Zmitrovich, Stanislav P. Arefyev, Vladimir I. Kapitonov, Anton G. Shiryaev, Kiran R. Ranadive and Margarita A. Bondartseva
9. Wood-Rot Polypores of Kerala, India
T.K. Arun Kumar and N. Vinjusha
10. Host preferences of Pinus-Dwelling Hymenochaetaceae
Balázs Palla, Yuan Yuan, Yu-Cheng Dai and Viktor Papp
11. Occurrence and Adaptive Potential of Indoor Macrofungi
Dmitry Yu Vlasov, Nadezhda V. Psurtseva, Ivan V. Zmitrovich, Katerina V. Sazanova, Oleg N. Ezhov and Margarita A. Bondartseva
POLYMORPHISM IN MACROFUNGI
12. Genetic and Morphological Polymorphism in Wood-Decaying Fungi
Badalyan S.M., Vladykina V.D., Zhuykova E.V., Diyarova D.K. and Mukhin V.A.
INDEX
Biography
Kandikere R. Sridhar is an adjunct faculty member at Mangalore University, India. His primary area of study is aquatic fungi in freshwaters and marine waters. He has research collaborations in the USA, Canada, Germany, Switzerland and Portugal. He was president of the Mycological Society of India (2018), a distinguished Asian Mycologist (2015) and one of the world's top 2% scientists in the field of mycology (2019–21). He has published over 500 research articles and edited 10 books. He is on the editorial board of several national and international journals and reviewed over 150 research papers, 25 project proposals and 10 book proposals.
Sunil Kumar Deshmukh is Scientific Advisor to Greenvention Biotech, Uruli-Kanchan, Pune, India and Agpharm Bioinnovations LLP, Patiala, Punjab, India. Being a veteran industrial mycologist, he spent a substantial part of his career in drug discovery at Hoechst Marion Roussel Limited (now Sanofi India Ltd.), Mumbai, and Piramal Enterprises Limited, Mumbai. He has also served TERI-Deaken Nano Biotechnology Centre, TERI, New Delhi, and as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Deakin University, Australia. He has to his credit 8 patents, 145 publications, and 19 books on various aspects of fungi and natural products of microbial origin. He is a president of the Association of Fungal Biologists (AFB) and a past president of the Mycological Society of India (MSI). Dr. Deshmukh is an associate editor of the Frontiers in Microbiology series and the editor of Progress in Mycological Research published by CRC Press. Dr. Deshmukh serves as a referee for more than 20 national and international journals. He has approximately four decades of research experience in getting bioactives from fungi and keratinophilic fungi.
