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azole drugs for human therapy
ketoconazole 352
fluconazole 352
itraconazole 352
ravuconazole 353
voriconazole 353bacteria – ice-nucleating 252–3
clamp connections 33
dolipore septum 31
fossil evidence 21
basidiocarps – fruitbodies, diversity
34 –9
basidiomycetous yeasts 218
Basidiomycota 16 , 31–9
basidiospores 31 , 32
basidium 31 , 32
batch culture 80 –1
beauvericin 133 , 313
beetles, bark 191
benzimidazole fungicides 344 –5
biological control
of frost damage 252
of fruit-rot fungi 241, 252–3
of insects 309–16
of nematodes 317–21
of plant pathogens 246 –52
role of pseudomonads 238 –9
biotin
as co-factor in carboxylations
127
required as a nutrient 111
biotrophic mycoparasites 244 –7
biotrophic plant pathogens 6, 20 ,
43, 93, 120, 280, 302–7
defined 280
blasticidin-S 348–9
blastospores 312
blue light perception in Neurospora
156 –7
boundary layer – spore liberation
204
branching – hyphal 53
bromatia 277
brown-rot fungi, of wood 35,
230 –1
Burkard spore sampler 209cDNA (complementary DNA) 87,
107, 164, 171–2, 175– 6, 179
calcium and calcium signalling 60,
72–3, 87, 201–2
calcium interaction with pectic
compounds 287
carbohydrates typical of fungi
128 –31
arabitol 6, 129 , 155
erythritol 155
glycogen 5– 6, 128
mannitol 5– 6, 128 –9, 155
ribitol 129
trehalose 5– 6, 128 –9, 155coremium 39– 40
crater disease of wheat 282–3
culture
batch 80 –1
continuous 81–3
media 110 –13
cutinase 88, 289
cyclic AMP 87
cycloheximide 347
cysteine – involved in hyphal
tropisms 75– 6
cysts, zoospore 185, 195–202
cytochalasins 72
cytochrome P-450 – role in sterol
synthesis inhibitors 345
cytosine permease – role as an
antimycotic agent 353
cytoskeleton, components of 62–^6damping-off diseases 280 –1
decline and replant diseases 283– 4
decomposer fungi – behavioral
groups 217–22
defense of territory 115
depolymerase enzymes 5, 110, 113,
114 –17
dermatophytes (“ringworm fungi”)
322–3, 324 –7
destruxins 133 , 312–13
deuteromycota 39
diagnostic probes 170
diaminopimelic acid – lysine
biosynthesis 6 , 131–2
diauxic growth curve 112
dikaryon 31–3
dilution rate
dimorphism – mould-yeast 5, 85– 8
of Blastomyces 332
of Candida 328 –9
of Histoplasma 332
of Paracoccidioides 333
diploidization – parasexual cycle
168
diploidy
in Chytridiomycota 18
in Zygomycota 24
dispersal of spores
airborne 190 –1
insect-vectored 191– 4, 257 ,
277– 8
water-dispersed 194 –5
zoospores 195–202
DNA
chromosomal 160 –1
mitochondrial 161–2
plasmids and transposons 162
viral elements and double-stranded
RNA 162– 4
dormancy of spores
constitutive 185– 6
of ectomycorrhizal fungi 186–8
exogenously imposed 188 –90carbon dioxide and fungal growth
152
carbon : nitrogen ratio in
decomposition 224 – 6, 253– 4
carbon substrates 110 –12
β-carotene/carotenoids 103, 104,
132, 156 –7, 190 –1, 218
catabolite repression 107
cell cycle
of budding yeasts 76–8
cell division cycle (CDC) genes
77– 8
duplication cycle of Basidiobolus
78
of fission yeasts 77– 8
of mycelial fungi 78 –9
cellulase enzyme complex 116 –17
cellulolytic fungi 213, 217, 218,
220 –2, 223– 4
cellulose chemistry 115–16
cerato-ulmin 294
chemostat 81
chemotaxis of zoospores
Chytridiomycota 17–19
dictyostelium 43– 4
Oomycota 199–202
plasmodiophora 45– 6
rumen chytrids 149
chemotropism of hyphae 53
chestnut blight 1 74–6
chiasma formation 159– 60
chitin
structure 131
synthesis 131
chitin synthase 49, 58, 59, 69–71,
108, 131
chitinase 108
chitosan 13, 131 , 338
chitosomes 59– 60
chlamydospores 48 , 51, 294
choanoflagellates 4
chromosome numbers 161
Chytridiomycota 17–21
ciclosporins 1, 12–13
citric acid production 12, 122, 128,
161
cleistothecium 28
coccidioidomycosis 323, 330 –1
colchicine 6
commensalism 237, 253– 4
compatible solutes 154 –5
competitive niche exclusion 243,
251–3
cDNA – complementary DNA
175
composts 223– 6, 253– 4
conidia 30, 39
conidiophore 39
contact-sensing
non-topographical 90
topographical 90 –3, 311
coprophilous fungi 190 –1, 192FB4eD02 26/4/05 10:29 AM Page 367