Biotechnology of Fungi for Improving Plant Growth

• Contributors; Preface; 1. The use of specific ectomycorrhizas to improve artificial forestation practices D. H. Marx and C. E. Cordell; 2. The cultivation of ectomycorrhizal fungi L. M. Harvey, J. E. Smith, B. Kristiansen, J. Neill and E. Senior; 3. Potentialities and procedures for the use of endomycorrhizas with special emphasis on high value crops S. Gianinazzi, V. Gianinazzi-Pearson and A. Trouvelot; 4. The use of fungi to control pests of agricultural and horticultural importance A. T. Gillespie and E. R. Moorhouse; 5. Mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis in insects A. K. Charnley; 6. Improvement of fungi to enhance mycoherbicide potential G. E. Templeton and D. K. Heiny; 7. Fungi as biological control agents for plant parasitic nematodes B. R. Kerry; 8. Selection, production, formulation and commercial use of plant disease biocontrol fungi: problems and progress R. D. Lumsden and J. A. Lewis; 9. Mechanisms of biological disease control with special reference to the case study of Pythium oligandrum as an antagonist K. Lewis, J. M. Whipps and R. C. Cooke; 10. Some perspectives on the application of molecular approaches to biocontrol problems R. Baker; 11. Protoplast technology and strain selection M. J. Hocart and J. F. Peberdy; 12. Commercial approaches to the use of biological control agents K. Powell and J. L. Faull; 13. The environmental challenge to biological control of plant pathogens A. Renwick and N. Poole.

"...should serve admirably to raise the level of awareness and understanding of these common problems among disparate groups of scientists that do not normally follow each others' respective literatures. The editors are to be congratulated for assembling such an interesting and diverse range of approaches to using fungi to protect and to increase overall productivity in agricultural and silvicultural systems." Richard A. Humber, Mycologia