Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Vegetative Processes and Growth

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Cell Cycle Control in Yeasts

      • S. A. MacNeill

      Pages 3-23

   3. Protein Secretion in Yeast

      • F. M. Klis

      Pages 25-41

   4. The Cytoskeleton in Hyphal Growth, Organelle Movements, and Mitosis

      • I. B. Heath

      Pages 43-65

   5. Osmotic Adjustment and the Role of Turgor in Mycelial Fungi

      • N. P. Money

      Pages 67-88

   6. Ionic and Electrical Dimensions of Hyphal Growth

      • F. M. Harold

      Pages 89-109

   7. Biogenesis of the Fungal Cell Wall

      • R. Sentandreu, S. Mormeneo, J. Ruiz-Herrera

      Pages 111-124

   8. Apical Wall Biogenesis

      • J. H. Sietsma, J. G. H. Wessels

      Pages 125-141

   9. Yeast/Mycelial Dimorphism

      • M. Orlowski

      Pages 143-162

   10. Translocation in Mycelia

       • D. H. Jennings

       Pages 163-173

   11. The Mycelium as an Integrated Entity

       • A. P. J. Trinci, M. G. Wiebe, G. D. Robson

       Pages 175-193

   12. Senescence of Mycelia

       • K. Marbach, U. Stahl

       Pages 195-210

   13. Heterogenic Incompatibility in Fungi

       • K. Esser, R. Blaich

       Pages 211-232

3. Reproductive Processes and Sexual Progression

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233

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   2. Regulation of Meiosis and Sporulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

      • S. Klein, A. Sherman, G. Simchen

      Pages 235-250

   3. Regulation of Meiosis and Sporulation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

      • R. Egel

      Pages 251-265

   4. Meiosis in Mycelial Fungi

      • P. J. Pukkila

      Pages 267-281

   5. The Mating-Type Switch in Yeasts

      • H. Schmidt, H. Gutz

      Pages 283-294

   6. Mating-Type Genes in Mycelial Ascomycetes

      • N. L. Glass, M. A. Nelson

      Pages 295-306

Mycology, the study of fungi, originated as a subdiscipline of botany and was a descriptive discipline, largely neglected as an experimental science until the early years of this century. A seminal paper by Blakeslee in 1904 provided evidence for self-incompatibility, termed "heterothallism", and stimulated interest in studies related to the control of sexual reproduction in fungi by mating-type specificities. Soon to follow was the demonstration that sexually reproducing fungi exhibit Mendelian inheritance and that it was possible to conduct formal genetic analysis with fungi. The names Burgeff, Kniep and Lindegren are all associated with this early period of fungal genetics research. These studies and the discovery of penicillin by Fleming, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1945, provided further impetus for experimental research with fungi. Thus began a period of interest in mutation induction and analysis of mutants for bio­ chemical traits. Such fundamental research, conducted largely with Neurospora crassa, led to the one gene: one enzyme hypothesis and to a second Nobel Prize for fungal research awarded to Beadle and Tatum in 1958. Fundamental research in biochemical genetics was extended to other fungi, especially to Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and by the mid-1960s fungal systems were much favored for studies in eukaryotic molecular biology and were soon able to compete with bacterial systems in the molecular arena.

• Ascomycetes
• Basidiomycetes
• Chytridiomycota
• Meiosis
• Oomycota
• Organe
• Pathogene
• Zygomycota
• botanics
• fungal genetics
• fungi
• morphogenesis
• mutant
• mycology
• regulation

• Department of Plant Biology, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

  Joseph G. H. Wessels

• Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

  Friedhelm Meinhardt

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