History of Mycology Flashcards
1
Q
What belief fueled misunderstandings about where fungi come from?
A
Belief in spontaneous generation
2
Q
Who was Christian Persoon?
A
- 1761
- 30 year recluse in Paris
- Regarded as a mycology authority
3
Q
Who was Rev. Miles Berkley?
A
- 1803
- Potato Famine
- realized fungi might cause diseases in plants
4
Q
Ethnomycology
A
-study of the historical uses and sociological impacts of fungi
5
Q
Where was the first written record of ethnomycology in the Western world?
A
time of greeks and roamns
6
Q
What natural phenomena has a long history of being connected to the human view of the origin of mushrooms?
A
- Thunder
- did recognize fungi developing in moist, woody areas
7
Q
Who was Deliporta
A
- 1588
- wrote about observation of “seeds” (spores) in mushrooms which was ignored
8
Q
Who was Pier Antonio Micheli
A
- described spores as seeds and gills as petals
- described over 900 species, only 2 were accepted
- Birth of mycology
- melon project
9
Q
Who was Agostino Bassi
A
-helped discover that microorganims cause disease
10
Q
Who was Elias Magnus Fries?
A
- swedish mycologist
- described 5000 species
- first to look at color of spore print for ID
- Weak discriptions, didnt like microscopes
