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…
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…
Are fungi hidden drivers of plant distributions and population persistence? An article written by Aaron S. David (recipient of MSA’s 2017 Forest Fungal Ecology Grant Award), Research Ecologist, USDA-ARS Invasive Plant Research Laboratory, Fort Lauderdale, FL By now it’s become a well-worn phrase, but the fungal communities that inhabit soils Read more…
The American Institute of Biological Sciences Awards MSA Graduate Student, Brian Lovett, with an Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award The AIBS describes the award and Brian: “The American Institute of Biological Sciences annually recognizes, with the Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award, one or two graduate students in the biological sciences Read more…
September 18, 1937 – November 20, 2018 Written by Jim Ginns, January 27, 2019. Donald Barr died suddenly at home in Yetminister, England, United Kingdom. He had been President of the Mycological Society of America in 1990-1991. His Presidential address is the lead article in Mycologia’s volume 84. Concurrently he was Read more…
Dear MSA Membership, We write with exciting news. As many of you have experienced, our Society is struggling to manage our growing pains. After much thought and after an extensive search, we have decided to transition management of our Society away from Allen Press and to The Rees Group. The Read more…
Smith Foray Report: 44th Annual A.H. Smith Lake States Mycological Foray The 44th Annual A.H. Smith Lake States Mycological Foray occurred October 4 – 7, 2018, near Mazomanie, Wisconsin. The Smith Foray was attended by nearly 70 mycologists, budding to mature, with interest in a broad spectrum of fungi and Read more…