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Improved drought tolerance, resistance to disease, and increased fruiting are just a few of the ways mycorrhizal fungi can enhance plant performance. Bestselling author Jeff Lowenfels clearly explains how beneficial fungi can make or break a plant's success, and how to best optimize the advantages. Applicable to all types of cultivation - from agriculture to horticulture and ornamental gardens to legal cannabis propagation - Teaming with Fungi reveals...
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Very short introductions volume 455
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Oxford University Press
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2016.
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English
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The variety of the mycological world is far greater than most people imagine. Some fungi kill trees and ravage crops, and pathogenic fungi can infect animals and even humans. But fungi also play crucial roles in ecosystems. They act as agents of wood decay in forests, and symbiotic relationships with mycorrhizal fungi are vital to many plants. In this Very Short Introduction Nicholas P. Money explains the essential functions performed by fungi, the...
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George W. Hudler is Professor of Plant Pathology at Cornell University. In addition to teaching courses on plant disease diagnosis and management, he offers a course that has the same name as this book. It is one of the most popular undergraduate courses at Cornell, consistently attracting over three hundred students. Since 1992, he has been editor of Branching Out, a biweekly newsletter to guide tree care professionals in the northeastern United...
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Mad River Press
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[1977?]
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English
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"In order to understand the modern taxonomy of agarics and boleti, a thorough knowledge of microscopic features is an absolute requirement. This book is written with intent to provide the student of fleshy fungi with a source of information with which a thorough study of mushrooms can be achieved and species and genera of agarics and boleti can be identified." -from preface.
9) The marigold
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"This impressively bleak vision of the near future is as grotesquely amusing as it is grim." - Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW
"A gripping tour-de-force torn from tomorrow's headlines." - David Demchuk, author of Red X and The Bone Mother
"A bold dystopian novel that captivates with its dread and depth. The Marigold is unhinged literary horror that goes right to the source of decay." - Iain Reid, award-winning author of I'm Thinking of Ending...
10) Mushroom
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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"Nicholas Money offers a vibrant tour of the world of mushrooms, investigating the science behind these organisms as well as their enduring cultural and imaginative appeal."--Jacket.
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Comet cycle volume 2
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English
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"From award-winning author Benjamin Percy comes the second novel in his grippingly original sci-fi series, The Comet Cycle, in which a passing comet has caused irreversible change to the growth of fungi, spawning a dangerous, invasive species in the Pacific Northwest that threatens to control the lives of humans and animals alike"--
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Mad River Press
Pub. Date
[1977]
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English
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"The purpose of this book is to teach the reader how to identify mushrooms using only macroscopic features of the fruiting body. Macroscopic features, or those that can be seen with the naked eye, require no special equipment and are thus useful for everyone. Included at the end of this manual is a key to many of the mushroom genera using only the macroscopic characters herein described." -from preface.
17) Elatsoe
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice cream. There are some differences. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. Some of these forces are charmingly everyday, like the ability to make an orb of light appear or travel across the world through rings of fungi. But other forces are...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, through ingenuity, inspiration, and sheer desperation, contrived to transform into alcohol over the centuries.
20) Microterrors: the complete guide to bacterial, viral and fungal infections that threaten our health
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Firefly Books (U.S.)
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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