Mycology and Plant Pathology

Description

Mycology, the study of fungi, a group that includes the mushrooms and yeasts. Many fungi are useful in medicine and industry. The fungi are a group of eukaryotic microorganisms, some of which are capable of causing superficial, cutaneous, subcutaneous, or systemic disease. Fungi are eukaryotic microorganisms. Fungi can occur as yeasts, molds, or as a combination of both forms. Some fungi are capable of causing superficial, cutaneous, subcutaneous, systemic or allergic diseases. Yeasts are microscopic fungi consisting of solitary cells that reproduce by budding. Molds, in contrast, occur in long filaments known as hyphae, which grow by apical extension. Hyphae can be sparsely septate to regularly septate and possess a variable number of nuclei. Fungi and fungal-like pathogens may be widespread or limited in distribution and have diverse impacts on human welfare. Threats to food security arising from yield reduction of staple crops may dramatically affect poor communities, particularly in developing countries. Plant pathology is the basic understanding of how plants grow, their lifecycle, and how they die. Through the perceptions of plant pathology, improvements on plant production, health, growth, disease resistance, and harvest can all be vastly improved. This book is very much useful for the students, research scholars, scientists, academicians and farmers.