Fungi and Food Spoilage (Hardcover)
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1. Introduction
2. Ecology of Fungal Food Spoilage
2.1 Water activity2.2 Hydrogen ion concentration
2.3 Temperature
2.4 Gas tension
2.5 Consistency
2.6 Nutrient status
2.7 Specific solute effects
2.8 Preservatives
2.9 Conclusions: food preservation
3. Naming and Classifying Fungi
3.1 Taxonomy and nomenclature: systematics
3.2 Hierarchical naming
3.3 Zygomycota3.4 Ascomycota
3.5 Basidiomycota
3.6 One name - one fungus
3.7 Practical classification of fungi
4. Methods for Enumeration, Isolation and Identification
4.1 Sampling
4.2 Enumeration techniques
4.2.1 Direct plating
4.2.2 Dilution plating4.2.3 Incubation conditions
4.3 Sampling surfaces4.4 Air Sampling
4.5 Isolation techniques
4.5.1 Yeasts
4.5.2 Filamentous fungi
4.5.3 Slants
4.6 Choosing a suitable medium
4.6.1 General purpose enumeration media4.6.2 Selective isolation media
4.6.3 Techniques for yeasts
4.6.4 Techniques for heat resistant fungi
4.6.5 Other plating techniques
4.7 Estimation of fungal biomass by chemical methods
4.7.1 Chitin
4.7.2 Ergosterol
4.8 Other methods for detecting or measuring fungal growth
4.8.1 Impedimetry and conductimetry
4.8.2 Fungal volatiles
4.8.3 Immunological techniques4.9 Identification media and methods
4.9.1 Standard methodology
4.9.2 Plating regimen
4.9.3 Inoculation
4.9.4 Additional media and methods
4.9.5 Identification of Fusarium species
4.9.6 Yeasts
4.9.7 Molecular methods
4.10 Examination of cultures
4.10.1 Colony diameters
4.10.2 Colony characters
4.10.3 Preparation of wet mounts for microscopy4.10.4 Staining
4.10.5 Microscopes and microscopy
4.11 Preservation of fungi
4.11.1 Lyophilisation
4.11.2 Other storage techniques4.12 Housekeeping in the mycological laboratory
4.12.1 Culture mites
4.12.2 Problem fungi
4.12.3 Pathogens and laboratory safety
5. Primary Keys and Miscellaneous Fungi
5.1 The general key
5.1.1 Notes on the general key
5.2 Miscellaneous fungi5.3 Genus Acremonium Link
5.4 Genus Alternaria Nees5.5 Genus Arthrinium Kunze
5.6 Genus Aureobasidium Viala & G. Boyer5.7 Genus Bipolaris Shoemaker
5.8 Genus Botrytis P. Micheli: Fr.5.9 Genus Byssochlamys Westling
5.10 Genus Chaetomium Kunze and related genera5.11 Genus Cladosporium Link
5.12 Genus Colletotrichum Corda5.13 Genus Curvularia Boedijn
5.14 Genus Endomyces Reess5.15 Genus Epicoccum Link
5.16 Genus Fusarium Link5.17 Genus Galactomyces (E.E. Butler & L.J. Peterson) Redhead & Malloch
5.18 Genus Geosmithia Pitt
5.19 Genus Hyphopichia Arx &