The comprehensive history of yeast research.
- Traces the growing understanding of yeasts and their role in the evolution of microbiology, biochemistry, cytology, and genetics.
- Details how findings in yeast research were used to overcome complex problems and to develop currently accepted scientific concepts and methods.
- Emphasizes experimental evidence, by reproducing many figures from the original researchers’ work as well as illustrations of the equipment they used.
- The book is enlivened with images of many of the scientists and offers accounts of notable incidents in the lives of some of them.
- Serves as a resource for microbiology, biochemistry, or general biology students.