Pictorial Atlas of Soil and Seed Fungi: Morphologies of Cultured Fungi and Key to Species (3rd ed.)

RR 2011/179 Pictorial Atlas of Soil and Seed Fungi: Morphologies of Cultured Fungi and Key to Species (3rd ed.) Tsuneo Watanabe CRC Press Boca Raton and London 2010 xxi + 404 pp. ISBN 978 1 4398 0419 3

£99; $159.95 (Includes CD-ROM containing colour versions of all images from the book)

Keyword Fungi

Review DOI 10.1108/09504121111134098

I agreed to review the Pictorial Atlas of Soil and Seed Fungi hoping for a colourful introduction to the world of fungi. I should have read the sub-title first: Morphologies of Cultured Fungi and Key to Species. This work is neither an introduction nor colourful but instead a full-blown plunge into fungi micomorphology and identification.

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