The book describes fungi, bacteria and viruses (as well as subviral pathogens) in light of recent information. It introduces the three domains (+super kingdoms), the Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya, Proposed by Carl Woese, and the new kingdoms of Protozoa, Chromista and Straminopila. The new classification of fungi (Kirk et al. 2001), bacteria (Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2004) and viruses (International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, 2006) have been included. There are descriptions of Viroids, Virusoids, Virnos, and Prions -organisms before which viruses pale into insignificance in smallness of their size and ingenuity of parasitism. There is a separate chapter on AIDS and HIV. I am sure readers will appreciate these additions and derive much value by the newer information about these organisms.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR H C Dube
Dr. H.C. Dube did his M.Sc. from Gorakhpur, D.Phil from Allahabad, under Prof. K.S. Bilgrami, and Postdoctoral at University of Madras with Padmabhushan Prof. T.S. Sasasivan. He also worked at Colorado State University (USA) with Prof. Ralph Baker and at Hannover (Germany) with Prof. S. Schonbeck. Dr. Dube was Professor and Head of the department life sciences at Bhavnagar University for 17 years before his retirement in November 2002. Earlier he was reader at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar and lecturer at university of Udaipur. Prof. Dube has authored two books, published by Vikas, and edited for volumes published in India and USA., latest being the Annual review of Plant Pathology 2002. Prof. Dube was elected FNASc in 1989 and made President of the Mycological Society of India in 2001. He has been on the Editorial Board of Indian Journal of Microbiology, Indian Phytopathology and Journal of Mycology and Plant Pathology. He was Director of UNESCO –sponsored project on water management, and research Coordinattor of Ocean science and technology cell of the Department of Ocean development, Govt. of India, to plan and promote research on Marine ecology of the West Coast of India. Dr. Dube has produced 36 Ph.Ds on modern integrated areas in Biology and published over 200 research papers. Dr. Dube was honoured with the Outstanding teacher Award in 2006.
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