Plant Pathological and Environmental Biological Aspects -- Fungal Pathogens of Plants in the Homogocene -- Molecular Techniques for Classification and Diagnosis of Plant Pathogenic Oomycota -- Plasmodiophorids: The Challenge to Understand Soil-Borne, Obligate Biotrophs with a Multiphasic Life Cycle -- Applications of Molecular Markers and DNA Sequences in Identifying Fungal Pathogens of Cool Season Grain Legumes -- Quantitative Detection of Fungi by Molecular Methods: A Case Study on Fusarium -- DNA-Based Tools for the Detection of Fusarium spp. Pathogenic on Maize -- Molecular Detection and Identification of Fusarium oxysporum -- Molecular Chemotyping of Fusarium graminearum, F. culmorum, and F. cerealis Isolates From Finland and Russia -- Molecular Characterization and Diagnosis of Macrophomina phaseolina: A Charcoal Rot Fungus -- Molecular Diagnosis of Ochratoxigenic Fungi -- Molecular Barcoding of Microscopic Fungi with Emphasis on the Mucoralean Genera Mucor and Rhizopus -- Advances in Detection and Identification of Wood Rotting Fungi in Timber and Standing Trees -- Molecular Diversity and Identification of Endophytic Fungi -- Molecular Identification of Anaerobic Rumen Fungi -- Human Pathological and Clinical Aspects -- New Approaches in Fungal DNA Preparation from Whole Blood and Subsequent Pathogen Detection Via Multiplex PCR -- Classification of Yeasts of the Genus Malassezia by Sequencing of the ITS and D1/D2 Regions of DNA -- DNA-Based Detection of Human Pathogenic Fungi: Dermatophytes, Opportunists, and Causative Agents of Deep Mycoses -- Applications of Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplificaton Methods (LAMP) for Identification and Diagnosis of Mycotic Diseases: Paracoccidioidomycosis and Ochroconis gallopava infection -- Identification of the Genus Absidia (Mucorales, Zygomycetes): A Comprehensive Taxonomic Revision -- Molecular Characters of Zygomycetous Fungi.