V B Hosagoudar
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This book comprises an account of endomycorrhizal fungi of Poochipara and Valakkadu sections of Silent Valley National park, gives the first hand information of 70 species of endomycorrhizal fungi belonging to 12 genera distributed among three orders: Glomerales, Diversisporales and Archaeosporales. This is an identification manual introduces the subject states the methodology in simplified form, provides dichotomous key to orders, families genera and species. ...
The authors of the book Asterinales of Kerala have been engaged in the study of Meliolales since the last three decades and this is the result of their stupendous effort. The book gives a brief introduction followed by the characters of the order Meliolales, key to the families and genera. Key to all the species are dealt and placed under their respective alphabetically arranged host families and the fungal genera, synoptic characters of an individual taxon by ...
Powdery mildews are the group of obligate parasitic and biotrophic fungi on wide host range of plants, cause heavy damage to them. Much work has been done on the powdery mildews of cultivated plants. These fungi exhibit their Anamorph or conidial stages in the tropic and produce their sexual or perithecial stages or telemorphs in the temperate regions. Fortunately, India harbours all the climatic conditions and geographical regions of the world and helps to ...
I started working on meliolaceous fungi in the year 1981. Till then, about seventy species were known in India. Subsequently, an intensive survey of these fungi in the Western Ghats have enriched our knowledge and raised their number to 378, with an additional genus Prataprajella (Hosagoudar, 1992, 1996). Subsequently, a new family Armatellaceae (Hosagoudar, 2003a) has been added and the Beeli formula was modified to include the maximum number of characters to ...
Meliolales of India by V.B. Hosagoudar is a comprehensive taxonomic monograph on Indian black mildews. It includes 375 species and infra-specific taxa which are presented in complete form for the first time. I hope it would serve as a useful manual to facilitate the identification of this highly specialised group of fungi in India. The line drawings are of specific value to the Mycologists and plant pathologists. The taxonomic position of several species and ...
This monographic work includes meliolaceous members reported till the end of the year 2006. All the descriptions are based on the protologues and are written in the style of Hansford’s Monograph (1961) containing 307 species comprising of nine genera (Amazonia-11 spp., Appendiculella-20 spp., Armatella-19 spp., Asteridella-37 spp., Basavamyces and Ectendomeliola-01 species each, Irenopsis-13 spp., Meliola-204 species and infraspecific taxa and ...