Current Advances in Molecular Mycology

CURRENT ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR MYCOLOGY......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 7
CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS......Page 9
PREFACE......Page 15
ABSTRACT......Page 17
INTRODUCTION......Page 18
AUTOMATED GENOMIC DATA MINING......Page 20
ADVANTAGES OF WEB AGENTS OVER MANUAL SEARCHING......Page 22
COMPARISON OF THE OCCURRENCE OF DEVELOPMENTAL GENE SEQUENCES IN THE GENOMES OF EUKARYOTES......Page 23
OVERALL CONCLUSIONS......Page 48
REFERENCEES......Page 50
ABSTRACT......Page 55
GENE-FOR-GENE INTERACTIONS IN THE EVOLUTION OF FUNGAL PATHOGENS......Page 56
FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS APPROACHES TO EXPLORE FUNGAL PATHOGENESIS IN PLANTS......Page 59
PERSPECTIVE......Page 67
REFERENCES......Page 68
ABSTRACT......Page 79
INTRODUCTION......Page 80
1. SOME IMPORTANT WEBSITES AND DATABASES......Page 81
2. MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION......Page 85
3. THE CURRENT STATUS OF FUNGAL GENOMICS......Page 89
4. ELECTRONIC JOURNALS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES......Page 94
6. VIEWPOINT......Page 96
REFERENCES......Page 97
ABSTRACT......Page 101
INTRODUCTION......Page 102
MOLECULAR DETECTION OF FUSARIUM......Page 104
MYCOTOXINS......Page 108
REFERENCES......Page 117
ABSTRACT......Page 123
INTRODUCTION......Page 124
MATERIALS AND METHODS......Page 130
DNA LEVELS IN CEREAL GRAINS IN FIELD SAMPLES DURING 2003-2006......Page 136
CORRELATION BETWEEN FUSARIUM DNA FROM GRAIN SURFACES AND MYCOTOXIN LEVELS IN GRAINS......Page 137
FUSARIUM DNA LEVELS ON GRAIN SURFACES AS COMPARED TO GROUND GRAINS......Page 139
CORRELATION BETWEEN FUSARIUM DNA AND MYCOTOXIN LEVELS IN GROUND GRAINS......Page 140
DNA LEVELS IN OATS AND BARLEY BETWEEN FLOWERING AND HARVESTING......Page 143
EFFECT OF TILLAGE AND FUNGICIDE TREATMENT ON FUSARIUM DNA LEVELS......Page 145
DISCUSSION......Page 146
FUTURE PERSPECTIVES......Page 147
REFERENCES......Page 148
ABSTRACT......Page 155
FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM......Page 156
MOLECULAR MARKERS......Page 157
CONCLUSION......Page 172
REFERENCES......Page 173
ABSTRACT......Page 187
INTRODUCTION......Page 188
COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES......Page 189
BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS......Page 190
SELECTED PHOMA SPECIES......Page 191
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PHOMA......Page 199
TRANSLATION ELONGATION FACTOR......Page 205
ITS SEQUENCES......Page 206
β-TUBULIN SEQUENCES......Page 208
REFERENCES......Page 211
ABSTRACT......Page 221
INTRODUCTION......Page 222
REFERENCES......Page 234
ABSTRACT......Page 239
DEVELOPMENT......Page 240
CONCLUSION AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES......Page 255
REFERENCES......Page 256
ABSTRACT......Page 265
INTRODUCTION......Page 266
MATERIALS AND METHODS......Page 267
RESULTS......Page 271
CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE LINE OF RESEARCH......Page 273
REFERENCES......Page 275
DIVERSITY, GENOTYPIC IDENTIFICATION, ULTRASTRUCTURAL AND PHYLOGENETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF ZYGOMYCETES FROM DIFFERENT ECOLOGICAL HABITATS AND CLIMATIC REGIONS: LIMITATIONS AND UTILITY OF NUCLEAR RIBOSOMAL DNA BARCODE MARKERS......Page 279
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 280
2. EXPERIMENTAL STRATEGIES, METHODS AND RESULTS......Page 283
3. IDENTIFICATION OF FUNGI IN COMMON LABORATORY PRACTICE......Page 300
4. PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF ZYGOMYCOTA......Page 310
5. PHYLOGENY......Page 314
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS......Page 316
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 319
REFERENCES......Page 320
ABSTRACT......Page 329
INTRODUCTION......Page 330
EXPERIMENTAL STRATEGIES AND METHODS......Page 332
COMBINED NUCLEAR RDNA PHYLOGENIES SUGGEST THAT THE ORDER MUCORALES IS PHYLOGENETICALLY CLOSELY RELATED TO THE ORDER ENTOMOPHTHORALES......Page 336
PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE ORDER MUCORALES SUPPORT THE UMBELOPSIDACEAE, THE ABSIDIACEAE SENSU STRICTO, THE CHOANEPHORACEAE SENSU LATO AND THE PHYCOMYCETACEAE AS NATURAL GROUPS......Page 338
PHYLOGENY VERSUS MORPHOLOGY: EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS OF A FIVE-GENE GENEALOGY BASED ON THE ELUCIDATION OF MORPHOLOGICAL SYNAPOMORPHIES WITH PHYLOGENETIC RELEVANCE......Page 341
CONCLUSIONS......Page 344
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 345
REFERENCES......Page 346
INTRODUCTION......Page 349
REFERENCES......Page 361
ABSTRACT......Page 365
INTRODUCTION......Page 366
A. DETECTION AND SPECIES IDENTIFICATION......Page 369
B. STRAIN TYPING......Page 373
CONCLUSION......Page 379
REFERENCES......Page 380
INDEX......Page 387