Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Overview -- 1 Mycology: a Neglected Megascience -- Part II: Environment, Agriculture and Forestry -- 2 Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Symbiosis under Stress Conditions: Ecological Implications of Drought, Flooding and Salinity -- 3 An Overview of Ochratoxin Research -- 4 Improvement of Controlled Mycorrhizal Usage in Forest Nurseries -- 5 Fungi in the Tree Canopy: an Appraisal -- 6 Ecology of Endophytic Fungi Associated with Leaf Litter Decomposition -- Part III: Food, Food Products and Medicine -- 7 Brewing Yeast in Action: Beer Fermentation -- 8 Genomic Adaptation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to Inhibitors for Lignocellulosic Biomass Conversion to Ethanol -- 9 Spoilage Yeasts and Other Fungi: their Roles in Modern Enology -- 10 Medicinal Potential of Ganoderma lucidum -- 11 Current Advances in Dematiaceous Mycotic Infections -- Part IV: Biotechnology and Emerging Science -- 12 Biotechnological Aspects of Trichoderma spp. -- 13 Agrobacterium tumefaciens as a Molecular Tool for the Study of Fungal Pathogens -- 14 Myconanotechnology: a New and Emerging Science -- 15 Current Advances in Fungal Chitinases -- 16 Extracellular Proteases of Mycoparasitic and Nematophagous Fungi -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.