North American Mycology Goes to War: World War II As some of you know already, I have been interested in this subject for some time. Envisioned are two major stories: mycologists (or future mycologists) who served in the armed forces somewhere in the world; and the many programs on the Read more…
Fungal Diversity Survey Updates Else C. Vellinga (ecvellinga@comcast.net; MSA liaison with amateur mycologists) and Gabriela D’Elia (director@fundis.org) Fungal Diversity Survey (aka FunDiS) started 2022 with a new leadership team: Ken Buegeleisen is the new President of the Board, taking over this role from Bill Sheehan, and Gabriela D’Elia is Director. Read more…
Searching for Pezizales Diversity in Appalachia Ben Lemmond, Jud VanWyk, Gregory Bonito, Rosanne Healy, Matthew Smith In August and September of 2021, mycologists from the eastern and midwestern U.S. converged in the southern Appalachian Mountains for two separate weeklong research forays. The focus of these trips was to collect Pezizales, Read more…
First Report of the Blast Single-celled Spore Pathogen, Pyricularia oryzae, on Rice in the India Boyapati Ravi Teja Naidu1* and Manoj Kumar Barnwal 1Department of Plant Pathology, Birsa Agricultural University (BAU), Ranchi- Jharkhand, India Mobile no: 9182982439, Email- ravitejanaiduboyapati@gmail.com. 2Department of Plant Pathology, Birsa Agricultural University (BAU), Ranchi- Jharkhand, India Read more…
Tolgor, Bau 2021. A Monograph of Mycenaceae (Agaricales) in China. illus. 326 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. In Chinese, with Latin nomenclature. Clowez, Phillippe and Pierre-Arthur Moreau 2021. Morels of Europe. illus. (col.9). 372 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. Czyzewska, Krystyna 2021. The lichenized, lichenicolous and other non-lichenized allied fungi of Central Poland. A Read more…
Book Review: Amanitas of North America Bunyard, Britt and Jay Justice 2020. Amanitas of North America. ISBN-13: 978-0-578-67572-5, hbk. The FUNGI Press, PO Box 98, Batavia, Illinois 60510-9998, U.S.A. Orders: fungimag.com. Cover price $60 but discounted at $50 on website. 340 pp., 120 color photos, glossary, bibliography, index, 10″ × Read more…
MSA Educator Spotlight – Marie Trest Interviewed by Sara Gremillion, Chair of the MSA Education Committee Interview questions: 1. What is your name and how long have you been teaching Mycology? My name is Marie Trest, Teaching Faculty at University of Wisconsin – Madison. I teach the laboratory section for Read more…
Donald Wicklow Donald Thomas Wicklow (22 June 1940 – 21 November 2021) Don Wicklow was a long time MSA member and benefactor. He is well known as Editor with George Carroll of two editions (1981 and 1992) of The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, as well Read more…
Martha Sherwood Martha Sherwood, 1948–2020, Expert in Ostropalean and Fossil Fungi Dr. Martha Allen Sherwood passed away in Eugene, Oregon, on 19 October 2020 after suffering a stroke. Although she moved on from studying fungi in the mid 1990s, her contributions in microascomycete systematics and fossil fungi still serve as Read more…
Thelma Perry Never Too Late In 2018 the New York Times developed a project to publish obituaries for individuals who had been overlooked at the time of their deaths (see https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked.html). Because some mycologists also may have been overlooked, any MSA member is invited to submit a memorial for an overlooked mycologist for Read more…