Researches on Fungi, Vol. VII : The Sexual Process in the Uredinales / A. H. Reginald Buller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buller, A. H. Reginald, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fungi--Reproduction.

Fungi.

Plants--Reproduction.

Plants.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (479 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This is the last volume of the late Professor Buller's monumental work on Fungi. Before his death in 1943, Dr. Buller had completed the manuscript; the final preparation for press has been made by Dr. G.R. Bisby of the Imperial Mycological Institute, Kew. Publication of the volume has been sponsored by the Royal Society of Canada, and the work of proofreading undertaken by Dr. W.E. Hanna, Dr. J.H. Craigie, and Dr. F.L. Drayton; the index has been prepared under Dr. Hanna's supervision. A foreword has been contributed by Dr. Joseph A. Pearce, President of the Royal Society.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

A. H. REGINALD BULLER (PORTRAIT)

SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATIONS AND HONOURS

POND LIFE

THE SPOROBOLOMYCETOLOGIST

EDITOR'S NOTE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUNCTION OF THE PYCNIDIA OF THE UREDINALES

CHAPTER II. THE PYCNIDIA AND PROTO-AECIDIA OF THE UREDINALES

CHAPTER III. FLEXUOUS HYPHAE IN THE UREDINALES IN GENERAL

CHAPTER IV. THE UNION OF PYCNIDIOSPORES AND FLEXUOUS HYPHAE IN PUCCINIA GRAMINIS AND THREE OTHER RUSTS

CHAPTER V. THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF PYCNIDIA AND ASSOCIATED SPORE-FORMS IN CERTAIN UREDINALES

CHAPTER VI. MODES OF INITIATING THE SEXUAL PROCESS IN THE RUST FUNGI

CHAPTER VII. COMPARISON OF THE SEXUAL PROCESSES IN THE UREDINALES WITH THOSE IN THE HYMENOMYCETES

CHAPTER VIII. A REVIEW OF CYTOLOGICAL WORK ON THE SEXUAL PROCESS IN HETEROTHALLIC UREDINALES

CHAPTER IX. CRONARTIUM RIBICOLA AND ITS SEXUAL PROCESS

CHAPTER X. PUCCINIA SUAVEOLENS AND ITS SEXUAL PROCESS

CHAPTER XI. THE GENUS GYMNOSPORANGIUM

CHAPTER XII. THE GEOLOGICAL TIME DURING WHICH THE PYCNIDIA OF THE UREDINALES ATTAINED THEIR PRESENT FORM AND FUNCTION, WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE EVOLUTION OF OTHER ENTOMOPHILOUS FUNGI

GENERAL INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

9781487596446

1487596448

9781442631632

1442631635

OCLC:

1088913038