Publisher's Synopsis
Cell Wall Deficient Forms: Stealth Pathogens, 2nd Edition, is a comprehensive text-reference that covers major aspects of cell wall deficient microbes (L forms). The book discusses protoplasts as efficient genetic tools, L forms essential to the food chain for their ability to reclaim nitrogen in the air, an L form pathogenic to a flowering plant, and new information on male sterility caused by streptococcal L forms in drosophila.