Smith, J. A., O’Donnell, K., Mount, L. L., Shin, K., Peacock, K., Trulock, A., Spector, T., Cruse-Sanders, J., and Determann, R. 2011. A novel Fusarium species causes a canker disease of the critically endangered conifer, Torreya taxifolia. Plant Dis. 95:633-639. A canker disease of Florida torreya (Torreya taxifolia) has been implicated in the decline of this critically endangered species in i...

Sordariomycetes is an earlier-introduced and one of the widely distributed class Ascomycota. The was initially classified based on morphology in having inoperculate unitunicate asci. With development DNA phylogenetic analysis, several undetermined or polyphyletic members were reclassified. However, not all species belonging to this have been sequenced analyzed. There are a number species, espec...

The ultrastructural cytology and reproduction of Amphiacantha longa Caullery et Mesnil, 1914 is described. Merogonial reproduction was not observed. The sporogony follows two lines: free disporoblastic and enveloped, polysporoblastic, involving sporoblast mother cells. The enveloped sporogony is endogenous in spore sacs of sporont origin, daughter cells are formed by vacuolation. Probably all s...

Review In the preface, this book is billed as a reference book of parasites of medical and veterinary importance. It also states that it lists over 600 parasites species providing an identical diet of information on each species in tabular form with a relatively small amount of free text introducing the tables. First impressions suggest it to be a very good reference book containing a comprehen...