Yeast research : a historical overview / James A. Barnett and Linda Barnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnett, J. A. (James Arthur), 1923-

Contributor:

Barnett, Linda, 1940-

American Society for Microbiology.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yeast--Research--History.

Yeast.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The comprehensive history of yeast research. Traces the growing understanding of yeasts and their role in the evolution of microbiology, biochemistry, cytology, and genetics. Details how findings in yeast research were used to overcome complex problems and to develop currently accepted scientific concepts and methods. Emphasizes experimental evidence, by reproducing many figures from the original researchers' work as well as illustrations of the equipment they used. The book is enlivened with images of many of the scientists and offers accounts of notable incidents in the lives of some of them. Serves as a resource for microbiology, biochemistry, or general biology students."

Contents:

The cause of fermentation : work by chemists and biologists, 1789 to 1850

The beginnings of yeast physiology, 1850 to 1880

Pure cultures, new yeast species, and cell-free extracts, 1880 to 1900

Yeast cytology, 1890 to 1950

Yeast cytology, 1950 to 1990

The fermentation pathway, 1900 to 1950

The main respiratory pathway, 1920 to 1960

Enzymic adaptation and regulation, 1900 to 1960

Regulation of sugar metabolism, 1920 to 2004

Metabolite transport by facilitated diffusion, 1900 to 2000

Metabolite uptake by active transport, 1925 to 2000

The foundations of yeast genetics, 1918 to 2000

Medical yeasts, 1800 to 2000

Taxonomy, 1900 to 2000.

Notes:

Derived from a series of articles in the journal Yeast.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-68367-105-8

1-55581-715-7