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World Fungi Day Seminar
Featuring 12 speakers from around the globe, World Fungi Day symposium is now launched! Visit the booking link to join! Speaker and program information can be found here.
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Call for Submissions: ALL NEW National Audubon Society Master Guide to Mushrooms
Call for Submissions: ALL NEW National Audubon Society Master Guide to Mushrooms Fieldstone Publishing, together with publishing partners Knopf/Penguin Random House, are soliciting short-form articles for inclusion in the newly designed National Audubon Society Master Guide to Mushrooms, slated for publication in 2022. Each article should be approximately 500-750 words in Read more…
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The Joint CanFunNet and Great Lakes Mycology Conference
Canada’s new national mycology conference! Join us for the action-packed, 3-day virtual meetings of the Canadian Fungal Research Network (CanFunNet), the Great Lakes Mycology group and the Canadian Phytopathological Society – Eastern Ontario Region (CPS-EOR), May 26-28, 2021. Registration is $45 CAD until May 18, then $55, and closes on May 25 at Read more…
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President’s Corner
President’s Corner From Inoculum, February 2020: Dear Mycologists, Greetings! I hope your New Year is off to a fabulous start. In Wisconsin the semester’s in full swing and I’m feeling by turns crushed and excited by experiments, teaching, ongoing faculty searches, and service as your President! I’m writing very specifically Read more…
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Book Review: Mushrooms of the Gulf States
Bessette, A.E., A.R. Bessette. D.P. Lewis. 2019. Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States: A Field Guide to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. University of Texas Press. $39.95 In 2011 I moved to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, to start a job as an assistant professor in fungal Read more…
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Banning Inscription
Intriguing Inscriptions Submitted by Ron Petersen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville A few days ago, rummaging around in my library, I came upon a small book, very fragile now: Cooke, MC & L Quelet. 1878. Clavis synoptica Hymenomycetum Europæorum. Hardwicke & Bogue, London. 240 pp. + catalogue of books by Hardwicke Read more…
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Book Review: Tricholomas of North America
Tricholomas of North America. A Mushroom Field Guide. 2013. Alan E. Bessette, Arlene R. Bessette, William C. Roody, Steven A. Trudell. University of Texas Press, Austin,TX. http://utpress.utexas.edu/. ISBN: 978-0-292-74233-8 (pbk . : alk. paper). Printed in China. 208 pp. Price (Paper) $29.95. The name Tricholoma was proposed by Elias Fries, Read more…
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Book Review: Agaricus of North America
Book Review: Agaricus of North America Agaricus of North America Richard W. Kerrigan. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, Volume 114, 2016. xviii + 573 p. NYBG Press, Bronx, NY. ISBN 978-0-89327-536-5. ISSN 0077-8931 $127.99, member price $115.19 In my opinion, publication of Agaricus of North America represents a Read more…
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An informal study of growing fruticose lichens in greenhouses
An informal study of growing fruticose lichens in greenhouses Carly R. Anderson Stewart1 1University of Colorado at Boulder, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Boulder, CO, 80309 ABSTRACT – Two species of wild-collected lichens, Usnea lapponica (from Colorado) and Ramalina menziesii (California) were placed into wet and dry greenhouses at the Read more…
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Video Showing Bitunicate ascus dehiscence in Lindgomyces carolinensis
Video showing Bitunicate (or, jack-in-the-box) ascus dehiscence in Lindgomyces carolinensis, a freshwater Dothideomycete fungus Submitted by Huzefa A. Raja, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402, United States The Dothideomycetes are distinguished from the other Ascomycota (ascus bearing fungi), mainly based on morphological Read more…