Mycology in the Tropics
Updates on Philippine Fungi
- 1st Edition - October 16, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Jonathan Jaime G. Guerrero, Teresita U. Dalisay, Marian P. De Leon, Mark Angelo O. Balendres, Kin Israel R. Notarte, Thomas Edison E. Dela Cruz
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 4 8 9 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 4 9 0 - 3
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Request a sales quoteMycology in the Tropics: Updates on Philippine Fungi comprehensively discusses the current state of Philippine mycology, including historical developments in the field, listings of fungi with diverse utilizations or applications, and those that cause economic impact on crop production in the country. Specifically, the chapters in the book introduce tropical mycology, describe different fungal groups, their biodiversity and conservation, and give insights into the applications of mycology in agriculture, health, industry and the environment. The book also includes quarantine regulations on economically important diseases and describes the importance of developing local studies on fungi.
- Provides a leading reference that encapsulates the many facets of mycology in the Philippines
- Gives up-to-date developments on Philippine mycology, especially topics rarely discussed, such as the roles of mycological herbaria and culture collections, traditional knowledge on mushrooms, and on quarantine guidelines of crops with fungal diseases
- Presents an introduction to fungal species reported in aquatic and terrestrial habitats
- Highlights local studies on fungi in relation to diseases in human, animals and plants and summarizes key findings on their use in the industry and the environment
Academic institutions, including faculty and students studying mycology. Researchers in medicine, biodiversity, and agriculture. Physician-researchers and those in the medical field, agriculture specifically among plant pathology courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, mycology courses for biology undergraduate programs, and environmental science
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Editors’ Biographies
- Preface
- About the Cover
- Chapter 1. A brief introduction to Philippine mycology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fungal research in Philippine higher education and research institutions
- 3. Professional societies and local journals for information dissemination on fungi
- 4. Looking forward … updates on Philippine fungi
- Part I. Fungi in aquatic and terrestrial habitats
- Chapter 2. Diversity and applications of fungi associated with mangrove leaves in the Philippines
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Early studies on Philippine mangrove fungi
- 3. Fungi associated with healthy mangrove leaves
- 4. Fungi associated with decaying mangrove leaves
- 5. Strategies to isolate and identify mangrove leaf-associated fungi
- 6. Concluding remarks and future direction
- Chapter 3. Fungi and fungus-like microorganisms in Philippine marine ecosystems
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Marine yeasts, mangrove-derived fungi, and marine fungal endophytes
- 3. Marine oomycetes
- 4. Biosynthesis, isolation, analysis, and applications of fatty acids from Philippine marine oomycetes
- 5. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 4. Species and functional diversity of forest fungi for conservation and sustainable landscape in the Philippines
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Forest formations in the Philippines
- 3. Ecological functions and substrates of forest fungi
- 4. Fungal growth requirements
- 5. Fungal diversity and mycological collection across forest formations and landscape
- 6. Challenges in mycology for conservation and sustainable landscape
- Chapter 5. Bioluminescent mushrooms of the Philippines
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Bioluminescence in fungi
- 3. Bioluminescent fungi in Southeast Asia
- 4. Bioluminescent fungi in the Philippines
- 5. Uses and applications of bioluminescent fungi
- 6. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 6. Lichens in the Philippines: diversity and applications in natural product research
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Early studies on Philippine lichens
- 3. Taxonomic diversity of Philippine lichens
- 4. Philippine lichens in natural product research
- 5. Pioneering studies on endolichenic fungi from the Philippines
- 6. Concluding remarks and future direction
- Part II. Fungi in agriculture, health, and environment
- Chapter 7. Plant diseases caused by fungi in the Philippines
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Genera of plant pathogenic fungi in the Philippines
- 3. Plant diseases caused by fungi in Phylum Ascomycota
- 4. Plant diseases caused by fungi in Phylum Basidiomycota
- 5. Plant diseases caused by fungi in Phylum Blastocladiomycota, Chytridiomycota, and Mucoromycota
- 6. Concluding remarks and future direction
- Chapter 8. Epidemiology of fungal plant diseases in the Philippines
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Epidemiological studies
- 3. Crop loss studies
- 4. Survey studies
- 5. Plant disease modeling
- 6. Disease-yield loss modeling
- 7. Climate change and plant diseases
- 8. Concluding remarks and future directions
- Chapter 9. Mycosis in the Philippines: Epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnostics and interventions
- 1. Overview of mycosis
- 2. Common fungal infections
- 3. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 10. Environmental mycology in the Philippines
- 1. Introduction: the growing environmental concern in Southeast Asia
- 2. Mycoremediation
- 3. Mycoremediation of heavy metals
- 4. Fungi as bioremediation agents for pesticides
- 5. Fungi as biocontrol agents in agriculture
- 6. Plastic degrading fungi in the Philippines
- 7. Mycoremediation of hydrocarbons
- 8. Moving forward
- Part III. Fungal conservation and management
- Chapter 11. Edible mushrooms of the Philippines: traditional knowledge, bioactivities, mycochemicals, and in vitro cultivation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ethnomycology in the Philippines
- 3. Species listing of wild edible mushrooms in the Philippines
- 4. In vitro culture of Philippine wild edible mushrooms
- 5. Mycochemicals and bioactivities of cultivated wild edible mushrooms
- 6. Concluding remarks and future direction
- Chapter 12. Culture collections and herbaria: Diverse roles in mycological research in the Philippines
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Microbial culture collections
- 3. Fungal resources of Philippine MCCs
- 4. Opportunities and challenges in microbial culture collections
- 5. Mycological herbarium
- 6. Opportunities and challenges in mycological herbaria
- 7. Concluding remarks and future direction
- Chapter 13. Fungal plant pathogens of quarantine importance in the Philippines
- 1. History, plant quarantine protocols and current policy
- 2. Fungal pathogens with high impact in Philippine agriculture
- 3. Practices in controlling entry, exit and epidemics
- 4. Related administrative orders
- Chapter 14. Innovative learning activities for teaching mycology in the Philippines
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Teaching fungi to kids in preschool and elementary levels
- 3. Learning activities on fungi for high school students
- 4. Innovative teaching strategies on fungi for undergraduate courses
- 5. Safety when working with fungi
- 6. Concluding remarks
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 16, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 394
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323994897
- eBook ISBN: 9780323994903
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Jonathan Jaime G. Guerrero
Jonathan Jaime G. Guerrero was a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Biology of Bicol University College of Science. He served as the editor-in-chief of the Bicol University Research and Development Journal and former Director of the Publication and Knowledge Management Division under the Office of the Vice President for Research, Development and Extension. He handled undergraduate courses in mycology, plant pathology and environmental science. He is currently a medical student at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine.
Affiliations and expertise
College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, PhilippinesTD
Teresita U. Dalisay
Dr. Teresita Dalisay is a tenured professor of the Institute of Weed Science, Entomology and Plant Pathology (IWEP) at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Mycology and Plant Pathology. She had held administrative functions namely Director, Deputy Director, Division Head of the Crop Protection Cluster, and OIC-College Secretary for few times. She had been a core science Research and Development Leader, a national RD Lead Program of the National Research Center of the Philippines, whose task is to give technical assistance to research or higher education institution in development of a national research center or program. She has been contributory to the formulation of Philippine National Standards for onion, coconut to name a few. Apart from teaching, research and extension activities, she is active as guest editor, evaluator or reviewer of on-going and proposed national research programs and projects, of papers for publication to international and local journals. Her research interests are on biological control of fungal plant pathogens, endophytic fungi, mushroom production, ecological and diversity studies on fungi which earned her publications and being sought after resource speaker on variety of topics.
Affiliations and expertise
Institute of Weed Science, Entomology and Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture and Food Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna, PhilippinesMD
Marian P. De Leon
Dr. Marian P. De Leon is the Director of the UPLB Museum of Natural History. She also serves as the University Researcher and Curator of the UPLB MNH Microbial Culture Collection. She pioneered research on exploration of Philippine Caves for pathogenic, novel and potential microorganisms. In 2019, she was conferred as Certified Biosafety Officer (CBO) given by the National Training Center for Biosafety and Biosecurity and the US Department of State Biosecurity Engagement Program. As CBO, she was given an appointment to serve as Biosafety Officer and Scientist Member of the UPLB Institutional Biosafety Committee. Her contributions in Microbiology have been recognized by the Philippine Academy of Microbiology, Inc. and certified her as a Registered Microbiologist. Currently, she is the Chair of the Division 5 – Biological Sciences of the National Research Council of the Philippines and holds several position and active membership in the Philippine Society for Microbiology, Inc., Philippine Network of Microbial Culture Collections, Inc., the Philippine Society for Lactic Acid Bacteria and Mycological Society of the Philippines.
Affiliations and expertise
Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna, PhilippinesMB
Mark Angelo O. Balendres
Dr. Mark Balendres PhD leads a nationally recognized research group and is the Laboratory Head of the Plant Pathology Laboratory, Institute of Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture and Food Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños. He obtained his PhD in Agricultural Sciences (Plant Pathology) from the University of Tasmania, Australia in 2017. He works across a wide range of economically important crops (and seeds) and a diverse plant pathogen, including bacteria (bacterial wilt of Solanaceae and bacterial stalk rot of corn), protozoa (potato powdery scab), fungi (vegetable and fruit anthracnose and mycotoxigenic fungi) and viruses (banana and vegetable viruses). Research outcomes from his group include the elucidation of the etiology and epidemiology of plant diseases, selection and development of disease-resistant crops, development of diagnostics and disease-resistance screening protocols, and development of sustainable disease management strategies.
Affiliations and expertise
Institute of Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture and Food Science, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna, PhilippinesKN
Kin Israel R. Notarte
Kin Israel Notarte completed Doctor of Medicine and Master of Science in Microbiology from the University of Santo Tomas. He is currently pursuing PhD in Pathobiology (Microbiology and Infectious Disease) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. He has published more than thirty technical papers in research areas encompassing microbiology, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, public health, and evidence-based medicine. He is a reviewer in several journals, including the Journal of Infection and Public Health, Current Research in Microbial Sciences, and the New England Journal of Medicine. He is a member of the Mycological Society of the Philippines, British Infection Association, and the World Society for Virology. In his spare time, he loves to travel, watch anime, and read fictional books.
Affiliations and expertise
Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, PhilippinesTD
Thomas Edison E. Dela Cruz
Thomas Edison E. dela Cruz is a professor of microbiology and a senior faculty researcher and lead of the Fungal Biodiversity, Ecogenomics, and Systematics (FBeS) group at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. His research focus on the biodiscovery of fungi and myxomycetes and their ecological patterns under changing landscapes. He also conducts research on fungal natural products, ethnomycology, and microbiology education. He has published more than 115 technical papers and supervised undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. dela Cruz advocates for science education. He is the Philippine Representative to the Asian Mycology Committee and a fellow of the Philippine Academy of Microbiology and the Global Young Academy.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, PhilippinesRead Mycology in the Tropics on ScienceDirect