Volume V, consisting of two parts (A and B) of ca. ten volumes of the new handbook series on fungi, deals with interactions between fungi and plants. On the one hand, fungi as pathogens and, on the other hand, associations by which both partners - the fungus and the plant - profit are treated. Both aspects are of special importance to agriculture.

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Part A and Part B of the fifth of twelve volumes of The Mycota deal with the mechanisms of interactions between fungi and plants and consider pathogenic as well as mutualistic associations. Nobody involved in the manipulation of plant populations can afford to ignore the fungi, so pervasive and important are fungus/plant interactions for the well-being of plant communities, both managed and natural. Consequently, these volumes will be of interest to a broad range of professionals involved in agriculture, forestry, horticulture, and conservation as well as plant pathology, mycology, ecology, and evolution.

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B.- Profiles in Pathogenesis and Mutualism.- 1 The Gene-for-Gene Concept in Plant-Pathogen Interactions: Tomato - Cladosporium fulvum.- 2 The Potato Late Blight Pathogen and Other Pathogenic Oomycota Phytophthora infestans.- 3 The Rice Blast Fungus, Magnaporthe grisea.- 4 Erysiphe graminis.- 5 The Uredinales.- 6 Genetics and Molecular Biology of the Fungal Partner in the Ectomycorrhizal Symbiosis Hebeloma cylindrosporum × Pinus pinaster.- 7 Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (VAM) Fungi.- 8 Endophytes of Forest Trees: A Model for Fungus-Plant Interactions.- The Consequences of Fungal Associations in Plant Populations.- 9 Plant Pathogenic Fungi in Agroecosystems.- 10 Speciation and Population Biology in Colletotrichum.- 11 The Epidemiology of Mycorrhizal Fungal Infection During Plant Succession.- 12 The Population Biology of Grass Endophytes.- The Evolution of Fungus-Plant Associations.- 13 Genomic Structure and Genetic Flexibility and Microevolution in Pathogenic Fungi.- 14 Evolution of Mutualistic Endophytes from Plant Pathogens.- 15 Mathematical Models of Plant/Fungus Interactions.- 16 Evolution of Plant Resistance and Susceptibility to Fungal Parasites.- Biosystematic Index.