This directory provides the reader with quick-access to information on more than 8000 companies, research centres and academic institutions involved in new and established technologies. This edition offers more than 600 all-new organization listings, including new listings in Europe.

Outlines the development of the main branches of mycology.

Considers the role of fungi in the tropical ecosystem and their potential as a source of useful, novel compounds.

List of 2,209 annotated references arranged geographically and subarranged by broad subject divisions including Biological sciences and anthropology and Medicine, public health and safety. Books and periodical articles included. Covers period 1945-71. Author index, index of original titles, and KWIC index of English titles. 1st edition, 1969

This 10th edition, of the acclaimed reference work, has more than 21,000 entries, and provides the most complete listing available of generic names of fungi, their families and orders, their attributes and descriptive terms. For each genus, the authority, the date of publication, status, systematic position, number of accepted species, distribution, and key references are given. Diagnoses of families and details of orders and higher categories are included for all groups of fungi. In addition, there are biographic notes, information on well-known metabolites and mycotoxins, and concise accounts of almost all pure and applied aspects of the subject (including citations of important literature). Co-published by: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)