Slayers, saviors, servants, and sex : an expose of kingdom fungi /
"We can also thank fungi for antibiotics, but do we fully appreciate the revolution in lifestyle (and life expectancy) that these taken-for-granted treatments permit? One of the first people to receive penicillin treatment in England in the 1940s was a policeman in Oxford. He died of septicemia...
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New York :
Springer,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- 1 ? Toxins: Kill the Primates, Rule the World
- 2 ? Blights, Rusts, Bunts, and Mycoses
- 3 ? Decay and Degradation
- 4 ? Joining Forces
- 5 ? Fungi in Medicine
- 6 ? Turning the Tables
- 7 ? Lets Party!
- 8 ? The Old Kingdom in Time and Space
- 9 ? Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even Educated Fleas Do It: But Why?
- 10 ? The Cavalry Is Coming
- Sources
- Word Games
- Solutions to Word Games.