Ecology of Macrofungi

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.

• Preface. Ecology of Macrofungi - An Overview. FOREST MACROFUNGI. The Roles of Macrofungi in Humid Tropical Forests and the Effects of Disturbances. Ecological Aspects of Ammonia Fungi in Various Vegetation Sites. Ecology of Wild Mushrooms. Ecology of Macrofungi in Southwest India. ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGI. Mycogeography and Ecology of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in Northern México. On the Amanita in Southwest India. WOOD-INHABITING MACROFUNGI. Substrate Ecology of Wood-Inhabiting Basidiomycetes. Wood-Rot Polypores of Kerala, India. Host preferences of Pinus-Dwelling Hymenochaetaceae. Occurrence and Adaptive Potential of Indoor Macrofungi. POLYMORPHISM IN MACROFUNGI. Genetic and Morphological Polymorphism in Wood-Decaying Fungi. INDEX.