Mycology Scientific Journals
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source for tinder, traditional medicine, food, and entheogens, also as their dangers, like toxicity or infection. A biologist specializing in mycology is named a mycologist. Mycology branches into the sector of phytopathology, the study of
plant diseases, and therefore the two disciplines remain closely related because the overwhelming majority of
plant pathogens are fungi. Many fungi produce toxins, antibiotics, and other secondary metabolites. For example, the cosmopolitan genus Fusarium, toxins related to fatal outbreaks of alimentary toxic aleukia in humans were extensively studied by Abraham Joffe. Fungi are fundamental for life on earth in their roles as symbionts, for example in the form of insect symbionts, lichens. Many fungi are ready to break down complex organic
biomolecules like lignin, the more durable component of wood, and pollutants like xenobiotics, petroleum, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. By decomposing these molecules, fungi play a critical role in the global carbon cycle. Fungi, like myxomycetes and oomycetes, often are economically and socially important, as some cause diseases of animals also as plant. Apart from pathogenic fungi, many
fungal species are vital in controlling the
plant diseases caused by different pathogens. For example,
species of the filamentous
fungal genus
Trichoderma considered together of the foremost important biological control agents as an alternate to chemical based products for effective crop diseases management
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