Pictorial Atlas of Soilborne Fungal Plant Pathogens and Diseases

Manual Design and Usage Design and usage of this book are summarized as follows: The fungus diseases and topics related by various plant pathogenic species are alphabetically described, including oomycetous, zygomycetous, ascomycetous, basidiomycetous, and deuteromycetous (anamorphic or mitosporic fungal) species. Latin binominals are adopted, following recent literature, including Farr etal. (1989), Jong et al. (1996), Kirk et al. (2008), and NITE Biological Resource and Center (NBRC, 2005). Most of the fungi studied were isolated from soil, plant roots, and seeds, and the rest from wood-inhabiting fruiting bodies. Their spores or the spore-like structures associated with them were mostly collected in Japan, but some were from the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Switzerland, and Taiwan, the Republic of China (ROC). Living fungal cultures are deposited at the MAFF Genebank, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery (MAFF), and the Institute of Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), both in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, as well as at the Biological Resource Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE) (previously Fermentation Institute [IFO], Osaka incorporated) in Kazusa, Chiba, Japan, at American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), United States, and at Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS), Netherlands, and they are mostly listed in the Appendix of Pictorial Atlas of Soil and Seed Fungi, 3rd ed. (2010). Most fungi have been deposited domestically, but foreign GenBank accession numbers have been recorded preferably. All pictures on morphologies, and fresh and dried fungal specimens are described based on my own materials, and reproduced or created using Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0. Dimensions of some representative organs of the respective fungi are also recorded whenever necessary. Dried specimens were prepared: fruit bodies dried at 50°C until completely dry, stocked one by one in specic plastic cases; similarly, their fungal agar cultures in plastic Petri dishes dried at 50°C until completely dry, then removed from the plates, and led in albums one by one. These specimens were always kept nearby and used.