Slayers, saviors, servants, and sex : an expose of kingdom fungi
"This is a book for the general reader about the world of fungi. We should know more about fungi. They have killed us, saved us, and served us since before written records began. We have been making bread, brewing ale, and fermenting wine for millennia. Our crops have been at the mercy of fungal diseases since we became farmers, and they still are. Fungal diseases have caused large demographic changes - from the great plague of "St. Anthony's Fire" of the Middle Ages (caused by a fungal toxin) to the Irish mass migration to the Americas during the famine (caused by a fungal disease of the potato crop)."
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vii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780387951010, 9780387950983, 0387951016, 0387950982
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Machine derived contents note: Preamble.- Toxins
kill the primates, rule the world. Or: Don't turn your back on a fungus!- Blights, rusts, bunts and mycoses.- Decay and degradation, a fungal specialty.- Joining forces
fungal co-operative ventures.- Fungi in medicine
antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals.- Turning the tables. Using fungi to control other pests.- Let's party!- The old Kingdom in time and space.- Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. But why?- The cavalry is coming. Fungi to the rescue.- Sources.- Word games.- Solutions to word games
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