Forest Fungi of Central India

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Classification of plants in general and fungi in particular is a neglected discipline and there are very few institutions where the workis going on. In the present book, which is first of this kind, we compile all fungi occurring in forest of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. A large number of collerctions of forest fungi has been made from forest of the central India and preserved at mycology herbarium of the Institute: the fungi were identified and documented. Many fungi were found new to science, while many others are reported as new host and fungal records from India are reported in the present work. The present work will be helpful in developing TFRI as center for taxonomy of fungi and an identification service for forest fungi will be provided by this institute in near future. In the present work we compile all funig with their full desciption and illustrations. In this endeavour 17 lower fungi, 187 ascomycete, 65 basidiomycete were described and systematically arranged following the recent classification.

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s Dr. R K Verma presently working as scientist ‘D’ and Head, Forest Pathology Division at Tropical Forest Research Institute, He has successfully completed 4 research projects on biofertilizers and taxonomy of fungi and was associated with 5 other projects. He is a member of many academic societies and was awarded FPSI by Indian Phytopathological Society. He has published 79 research papers in Indian and Foreign Journals and written 3 book chapters. He has published 4 new genera and 60 new species of fungi. Because of the reference value of this outstanding achievement his name appeared in the 9th edition of Marquis Who’s Who in science and engineering 2006-07. Dr. Nidhi Sharma is associated with Tropical Forest Research Institute as Research Associate since 2004. She is a member of various academic societies. She has ten published research papers in various Indian journals and one book chapter to her credit. She has published 30 new species of fungi. Dr. K K Soni is presently working as Scientist-D in Forest Pathyology Division, Tropical Forest Institute, Jabalpur. He published 75 research papers in various national and international journals. He has been awarded “AWARD OF EXCELLENCE” in forestry research by Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehra Dun. Dr. Jamaluddin, Scientist-G is working as Group Coordinator (Research) and Head Division of Forest Pathology in TFRI, Jabalpur. He has published 350 research papers in various national and international journals. He has published two books FUNGI OF INDIA in 1981 and another supplement in 2004. His second book is GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY published in 2006 by M/s Sientific Pulishers, Jodhpur. He has also published 5 different brochures on tree diseases and bio-fertilizers. 15 students obtained Ph.D. degree under his supervision. He has been awarded Vishisht Vaigyanik Purashkar in 2005 by Govt. of India, MoEF, New Delhi, AWARD OF EXCELLENCE by ICFRE Dehradun and BRANDIS PRIZE from forest Research Institute, Dehradun and a lettter of appreciation from DG, ICFRE in 2004. Table of Contents Introduction Zygomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Fungi forest wise Tree-wise list of fungi Bibliography Fungus index Host Index