a really fine collection of step-by-step method descriptions that cover an enormously wide range of experimental approaches, and which come from a well selected team of genuine experts ... a copy in the library is not enough, there should be a copy on every laboratory bench. Mycological Research Protocols are described in all but the first chapter and the hope is that, by analogy with a recently published cookery book, they can turn us all into research god(esse)s. Microbiology Today