Field Mycology and
Conservation safeguarding fungi
Field Mycology and
Conservation safeguarding fungi
Fungi are now explicitly recognized in the newly named International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants. The radical changes to naming pleomorphic fungi resulting from the complete revision of Article 59 will require unprecedented collaboration among mycological taxonomists. Linking DNA sequence data to the right morph; who decides which is the right genus name and species epithet, and based on what criteria? Who will serve on the committees that manage the names in the anamorph-teleomorph database? How will effective publication work in practice now that hard copies are no longer required? Now that registration of taxonomic novelties is mandatory (1 Jan. 2012), names and descriptions need to be linked to all specimens, DNA sequences and strain data. What is the Lists of Protected Names, and do they require sequence data to be so recognized or not? These fundamental questions in modern fungal taxonomy are the focus of this two day meeting organised by the CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre on the theme “One Fungus = Which Name?”.
