Catalogue of rust fungi of the Czech and Slovak Republics

The extensive manuscript of a scientific work on rusts of the Czech and Slovak Republics deals with an important group of fungi that are parasites of vascular plants. The work is based on previously published data on the occurrence or rusts, as well as on own collections and some documents stored in our herbaria. In addition to detailed data on the distribution of each species, questtions of systematics, ecology and phytopathology are discussed.

The book is excellent publication and very useful for those, who want to look up some basic infor-mation about rusts in the Czech and Slovak Republics - place and date of occurrence of particular species, or synonyms of their names, and basic information about their hosts. Thus, this book will be of significant interest to students in master and doctor degree, however, also for professionals in mycology, phytopathology and plant protection.
Aleš Lebeda (Plant Protect. Sci., Vol. 46, 2010, No. 1: 39)