APPLIED FUNGAL GENETICS

The following sections are included:

• General fungal genetics: life cycles; wild-types and mutants; spore types; control of sexual and vegetative fusions

  • Life cycles

  • Wild-types and mutants

  • Spores

  • The control of vegetative and sexual fusions

• The commercial importance of fungi

• Recombination and sexual mapping

• The parasexual cycle and parasexual mapping

• The induction and isolation of mutants, including auxotrophs

• Obtaining improved strains for industry

  • Aims and methods

  • Different aims in different yeasts

  • Penicillin production

• Suggested reading