Preface
Section 1: Taxonomy and Diversity of Trichoderma
Chapter 1: Taxonomy and biodiversity of the genus TrichodermaDr. Irina S. DruzhininaInstitute of Chemical, Environmental and Biological Engineering, Austria
Chapter 2: Sexual and asexual development in TrichodermaDr. Alfredo H. Herrera-EstrellaLaboratorio Nacional de Geno´ mica para la Biodiversidad, Mexico
Chapter 3: Diversity and exploitation of Trichoderma based on biochemical analysisDr. Wen-Ying ZhuangInstitute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Section 2: Trichoderma interaction with plants and pathogens
Chapter 4: Plant-Trichoderma-Pathogen InteractionDr. M. LoritoUniversity of Naples and CNR IPP-Institute for Plant Protection, Italy
Chapter 5: Elicitor proteins from Trichoderma for biocontrol potentialsDr. Santiago GutiérrezUniversity School of Agricultural Engineers, Spain
Chapter 6: Trichoderma enzymes and their applications in biocontrol activityDr. P. K. MukherjeeBhabha Atomic Research Centre, India
Chapter 7: Tools for strain improvement of TrichodermaDr. Verena SeidlVienna University of Technology, Austria
Chapter 8: Role of Trichoderma in inducing systemic resistance in plantsDr. Elisa PellegriniUniversity of Pisa, Italy
Chapter 9: Role of Trichoderma in plant growth promotionDr. Laura Lidia Villalba Universidad Nacional de Misiones
Chapter 10: Mycoparasitic action of TrichodermaDr. Someshwar BhagatICAR-Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station, India
Chapter 11: Metabolic approaches to study Trichoderma-Plant interactionsDr. Qirong ShenNanjing Agricultural University, China
Section 3: Industrial Applications of Trichoderma
Chapter 12: Role of Trichoderma enzymes in food industriesDr. Sezerman Osman UgurAcibadem University, Turkey
Chapter 13: Trichoderma enzymes in wine and beer industryDr. Harald ClausJohannes Gutenberg-University, Germany
Chapter 14: Industrially important genes from TrichodermaDr. Ahmed M.A. El-BondklyNational Researc
