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Some mushrooms of Malawi.
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Year: 1985 Publisher: Zomba : Forestry Research,

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Children and toxic fungi : the essential guide to fungal poisoning in children
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ISBN: 1872291163 Year: 1995 Publisher: Edinburgh : Royal botanic garden, Edinburgh,

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Magical mushrooms, mischievous molds
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ISBN: 0691028737 9780691028736 Year: 1998 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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A colour atlas of poisonous fungi : A handbook for pharmacists, doctors, and biologists.
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ISBN: 0723415765 Year: 1990 Publisher: London : Wolfe Publishing,

Food poisoning
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ISBN: 0824786521 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York : Marcel Dekker,


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The poisonous and useful fungi of Africa south of the Sahara : A literature survey.
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ISBN: 9072619226 Year: 1994 Publisher: Meise : National Botanic Garden of Belgium,


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Determining mycotoxins and mycotoxigenic fungi in food and feed
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ISSN: 20428049 ISBN: 9781845696740 1845696743 0857090976 1613440278 9781613440278 Year: 2011 Volume: no. 203 Publisher: Oxford : Woodhead Pub.,

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Mycotoxins - toxic secondary metabolites produced by mycotoxigenic fungi - pose a significant risk to the food chain. Indeed, they may be the most hazardous of all food contaminants in terms of chronic toxicity and legislative limits on their levels in food and feed continue to be developed worldwide. Rapid and reliable methods for the determination of both mycotoxigenic fungi and mycotoxins in food and feed are therefore essential. This book reviews current and emerging methods in this area.Part one focuses on the essentials of mycotoxin determination, covering sampling, sample preparation an

Slayers, saviors, servants, and sex : an expose of kingdom fungi
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ISBN: 0387951016 0387950982 1461301351 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York : Springer,

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This is a book for the general reader about the world of fungi. We should know more about fungi. They have killed us, saved us and served us since before written records began. We have been making bread, brewing ale, and fermenting wine for millennia. Our crops have been at the mercy of fungal diseases since we became farmers, and they still are. Fungal diseases have caused large demographic changes - from the great plague of 'St. Anthony's Fire' of the Middle Ages (caused by a fungal toxin) to the Irish mass migration to the Americas during the famine (caused by a fungal disease of the potato crop). We can also thank fungi for antibiotics, but do we fully appreciate the revolution in life style (and life expectancy) that these taken-for-granted treatments permit? One of the first people to receive penicillin treatment in England in the 1940s was a policeman in Oxford. He died of septicemia when the supplies of the antibiotic ran out after he had been scratched by a rose thorn. Fungi enabled plants (by a mutualistic combination that persists today) to invade the land during the evolution of life on Earth. Higher fungi are almost unique in their ability to decay the chemical components of timber. Without the wood-rotting fungi we would be up to our eyes in dead trees. Fungi give us the opportunity of treating plant diseases and killing specific weeds, as well as being very useful for cleaning up polluted environments and for producing chemicals. In short, this book will show you why it is wise to look again at fungi and appreciate these extraordinary organisms for what they are: a vital component of our lives and of the Earth's ecosystem.

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