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Author Money, Nicholas P.

Title The triumph of the fungi : a rotten history / Nicholas P. Money
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) : illustrations
Contents ch. 1. Landscape architect -- ch. 2. A farewell to Elms -- ch. 3. The decaffeinator -- ch. 4. Chocaholic mushroom -- ch. 5. Rubber eraser -- ch. 6. Cereal killers -- ch. 7. Potato Soup -- ch. 8. Blights, rusts, and rots never sleep: a look at forestry and agriculture, biological warfare, and the global impact of fungal disease -- Notes -- Index
Summary Concerned with the most devastating fungal diseases in history, this book focuses on the biology of the diseases, as well as telling the stories of the scientists involved in their study, and of the people directly impacted by the loss of forest trees and cash crops
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-190) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Fungal diseases of plants -- History
Fungi -- History
Plant Diseases -- history
Plant Diseases -- microbiology
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
Fungal diseases of plants
Fungi
Mycologie.
Fungi.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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