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2 unusual facts about Mycology


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Les Mycologiades internationales : Annual international wild mushroom festival.

Mycology

For example the cosmopolitan (worldwide) genus Fusarium and their toxins associated with fatal outbreaks of alimentary toxic aleukia in humans were extensively studied by Abraham Joffe.


Albatrellus

Species of Albatrellus are terrestrial, with fleshy fruit bodies that differentiate into caps and stems; the stem is either central or eccentric to lateral.

Amanita nivalis

It was first described by the Scottish mycologist Robert Kaye Greville in 1826 from specimens found growing at high altitudes in the Scottish Highlands.

Ashville, Ohio

William Ashbrook Kellerman - Editor and founder of Journal of Mycology, Guatemalan explorer, photographer

Bommer

Elisa Caroline Bommer (1832–1910), Belgian botanist specialising in mycology

Carlos Luigi Spegazzini

He was a professor at the University of La Plata and Buenos Aires in Argentina, curator of the herbarium of the National Department of Agriculture, first head of the herbarium of Museo de la Plata, and founder of an arboretum and an institute of mycology in La Plata city.

Giacomo Bresadola

Giacomo Bresadola (Mezzana, Trento; often given as Giacopo) 14 February 1847 – Trento 9 June 1929) was an eminent Italian mycologist.

Gomphidius glutinosus

Gomphidius glutinosus was initially described by German mycologist Jacob Christian Schäffer as Agaricus glutinosus in 1774, before the father of mycology Elias Magnus Fries gave it its current genus and binomial name in 1838.

Hair perforation test

The Mayo Clinic's mycology laboratory has identified five common dermatophytes; Microsporum gypseum, Microsporum canis, Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, and Trichophyton tonsurans.

Henry Dissing

Henry Dissing (1931 – 10 December 2009) was a Danish mycologist and specialist in cup fungi.

Horatio George Adamson

While working at the Downs Ringworm School of the Metropolitan Asylums Board in Sutton, Adamson developed an interest in mycology and modified Robert Kienböck's technique for X-ray epilation for scalp ringworm.

Jacob Christian Schäffer

Jakob or Jacob Christian Schäffer or Schäffern (30 May 1718, Querfurt – 5 January 1790) was a German dean, professor, botanist, mycologist, entomologist, ornithologist and inventor.

Marcel Locquin

Locquin rose to eminence in the field of mycology over several years of work with a number of Nobel Prize winners.

Stropharia rugosoannulata

A 2006 study, published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, found the king stropharia to have the ability to attack the nematode Panagrellus redivivus; the fungus produces unique spiny cells called acanthocytes which are able to immobilise and digest the nematodes.

Theodor Rudolph Joseph Nitschke

In his earlier research he was interested in angiosperms such as the genus Rosa and the species Drosera rotundifolia (common sundew), From the late 1860s, he focused on mycology, publishing significant works on the fungal class Pyrenomycetes.

Virgate

In describing a pileus or "cap" of a mushroom, it refers to radiating stripes or ribs, as in Tricholoma virgatum.

Wenying Zhuang

Wenying studied Plant Pathology in Department of Agronomy at the Shanxi Agricultural College (now Shanxi Agricultural University) from 1973 to 1975, smd then entered Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where she received a Master of Science degree in Mycology in 1985 She continued graduate study in Mycology at Cornell University, earning a Ph.D in 1987, under Richard P. Korf.

Ziehl–Neelsen stain

A variation on this staining method is used in mycology to differentially stain acid-fast incrustations in the cuticular hyphae of certain species of fungi in the genus Russula.


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