Presents a broad range of information on new techniques in biochemical and molecular biology and their applications in systematic mycology and discusses the use of restriction fragment-length polymorphisms in fungal systematics; the taxonomic applications of proteins, fatty acids, carbohydrates, polysaccharides and lipids; techniques in fungal immunotaxonomy; the role of secondary metabolites in systematics; the use of metabolic data in lichen-forming fungi; and the numerical analysis of taxonomic information. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
