• Contributors; Preface; 1. Gene-transfer systems and vector development for filamentous fungi C. A. M. J. J. van den Hondel and P. J. Hunt; 2. Strategies for cloning genes from filamentous fungi G. Turner; 3. Novel methods of DNA transfer J. W. Watts and N. J. Stacey; 4. Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a host for the production of foreign proteins J. E. Ogden; 5. The molecular biology of Trichoderma reesei and its application to biotechnology M. Pentilä, T. T. Teeri, H. Nevalainen and J. K. C. Knowles; 6. Expression of heterologous genes in filamentous fungi R. W. Davies; 7. Methylotrophic yeasts as gene expression systems R. A. Veale and P. E. Sudbery; 8. Strain improvement of brewing yeast E. Hinchliffe; 9. Identification of the Cephalosporium acremonium pbcAB gene using predictions from an evolutionary hypothesis P. L. Skatrud, J. Hoskins, M. B. Tobin, J. R. Miller, J. S. Wood, S. Kovacevic and S. W. Queener; 10. Applications of genetically manipulated yeasts A. W. M. Strasser, Z. A. Janowicz, R. O. Roggenkamp, U. Dahlems, U. Weydemann, A. Merckelbach, G. Gellissen, R. J. Dohmen, M. Piontek, K. Melber and C. P. Hollenberg; 11. Molecular biology of fungal plant pathogenicity R. P. Oliver, M. L. Farman, N. J. Talbot and M. T. McHale; Index.

"an excellent contribution to the British Mycological Society symposium series...focuses on recent developments in methods for gene manipulation in fungi together with specific examples of how these techniques are being used to exploit industrially important species for use in heterologous gene expression and strain improvement and for the analysis of plant fungal pathogenesis...the editors and authors of this volume have produced an excellent reference source for biotechnologists in industrial mycology as well as for institutional libraries serving students of fungal molecular biology." Kerry O'Donnell, Mycologia