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The nutrition of a vegetative fungal colony can be viewed as a web of interconnected processes. In this volume, the author provides a mechanistic basis to the subject, focusing on the processes at the plasma membrane, the modulating effects of the fungal wall, and the fate of nutrients entering the fungus. The major emphasis is physiological, but biochemical and molecular biological information has also been drawn upon when appropriate, to reflect the power of a multifaceted approach and further encourage such study. A comprehensive review of what is known about the more commonly studied fungal species is complemented by information on other fungi, to provide an indication of the diversity of nutritional processes which exist in the fungal kingdom.

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• Introduction
• 1 Primary active transport
• 2 The relationship between membrane transport and growth
• 3 Walls and membranes
• 4 The vacuolar component
• 5 Carbon
• 6 Nitrogen
• 7 Phosphorus
• 8 Sulphur
• 9 Growth factors
• 10 Potassium and other alkali metal cations
• 11 Multivalent metals
• 12 Organic acids
• 13 Water relations and salinity
• 14 Nutrient movement within the colony
• References
• Index

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Jennings describes fungal nutrition in two chapters on transport in all of its many forms; cell wall and membrane structure in fungi; carbon and nitrogen metabolism; essential and/or toxic metals; growth factors (such as vitamins and organic acids); and water relations and nutrient movement in the fungal colony (two chapters among the best in the current literature). The book contains numerous figures and tables and occasional drawings, and there is an extensive bibliography of more than 100 pages. In the preface, Jennings writes that this volume is intended primarily for those teachers and students involved in fungal physiology, and particularly those involved in research. This is certainly true. He has been very careful to avoid extrapolation from the much-studied genera, i.e., Aspergillus, Saccharomyces, and Neurospora, to the vast, essentially unknown fungal kingdom. The book's greatest feature is its identification of many profitable areas of research, with warnings of some of the pitfalls to avoid in each. A background in biochemistry is assumed of the reader. Upper-division undergraduate through professional. J. Dawson; Pittsburg State University