first chapter, the author considers the "purpose" served by the second pyridine nucleotide coenzyme, TPN, to which he adds the thought that TPN arose in evolution to protect reducing power from the DPN-specific terminal oxidase systems that developed. Thus, the phosphogluconate and Emden-Myerhof pathways are looked at in terms of the pyridine nucleotidecoenzyme which each reduces rather than as...

Genome-enabled mycology is a rapidly expanding field that is characterized by the pervasive use of genome-scale data and associated computational tools in all aspects of fungal biology. Genome-enabled mycology is integrative and often requires teams of researchers with diverse skills in organismal mycology, bioinformatics and molecular biology. This issue of Mycologia presents the first complet...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is subject to false negative results. Samples of fungi with the genes of interest (e.g. a disease or mycotoxin) may be categorized as negative and safe as a consequence. Fungi are eukaryotic organisms that are involved in many fields of human activity such as antibiotic, toxin and food production. Certain taxa are implicated in human, animal and plant diseases. H...