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BMS NEWS Members of Council The following new Members we re a pp roved at th e AGM for th e per iod 1988-1990 : Mr G C Dickson War eham, Hants - Fun gal ph otogra p hy); Dr B 0 L FiU (Rothamst ed Exp St n Epide miology of foliar pathogen s); Dr R T V Fox (Un iv Reading - Soil borne pathogens) ; Dr S C Gregory (Forestry Commission , Sc otla nd - Forest pathology). 'Fungus Foray' v 'Field Excursion ' A recent discussion on Council ce ntre s around a suggestion to replace the term 'fungu s foray' with 'field ex cursio n' . Som e me mbers believed this would present a mor e professio nal and scientific image of the Soci ety to out side negotiating bodies. Th e term 'fu ngus fo ray' has been used by th e Societ y, and its predecessors, the Woolhope Naturalist s' Field Club and the Yorkshire Naturalists Un ion , sinc e 1867, and has since been adopted by every natural history societ y, both at home and abroad. Council would welcome yo ur views on the proposed ch an ge to 'fie ld excursio n ', so pl ease let the Gen er al Secretar y have you r thou ghts, in order th at a decision ca n be made befo re the publicati on of the 1989 p rog ram me . Se ts of fou r colour transparencies de pic ting th e ac ti viti es of the BMS a re now availab le. Th ey ma y be obtained through th e Society's slide-collect io n and are id eal to add to a lectu re o r talk to ex pla in what th e Soci et y does. Fr om 1988, th e Soc iet y 's representat ive o n th e British National Committee for Mi crobi ology w ill be the Pre sid ent, John Peberdy. Genetics, Molecular Biology & Evolution SIC The adve nt of re combinant DNA technology ha s gr eatly in creased the sc ope of b iotechnology by providing no vel ways of improving tr ad itional processes b y ope ning the wa y to totally novel products. Initially the hosts w ere bacteria but recently there has been an increasing interest in the use of yeasts and filamentous fungi (see J van Brunt, Biotechn ology 4: 1057, 1986) . Fungi are able to c arr y out post-translational mod ifications of prot eins and to secrete large qu antities of protei ns into the c ult ur e medium . Th e co rnm ercia] potential is stimulating research o n the mol ecular geneti cs of fungi and to en sure that th ese ex citing new developments are
reflected in the So ci et y's acti vities, GEMSIC has recruited a new member to represent th is field - Dr Jill Ogden (Delta Biotechnology Ltd , Nottingham). Her current research concerns the manipulation of filamentous fungi for the production of therapeutic proteins. Prior to this , sh e w o r ked on the ge netic s of resistance to antifungal compounds in Neu ro spora crassa, the co ntr ol of the cell cycle in Schizosaccharomyces pomb e, and gene expressi on in Saccharomyces cerv isiae. Pathogens & Mutualistics Interactions SIC In September, the SIC expects to pla y an im po rtan t role in th e symposium of 'Biotechno logy of Fungi for Improving Plant Growth ', which will include a day session in 'Inoculum Potential'. Looking ahead to 1989, plans are well advanced for the Berkeley Centenary Meeting on Phytoph thora, which will be held at Trinity College, Dublin, in conjunction with the British and Irish Societies for Plant Pathology. Catalogue of BMS Library. Supplement 1 The last revised catalogue was published in Bull. Br. m ycol. Soc. 18: 13-27 (1984). Am m ira ti , J F, T ra quai r, J A & Horden , P A (1985). Po isono us mu sh room s of Cona da incl uding oth er ed ible f ungi. An o n. (1934 ). Edib/e and Poisonou s Fun gi. MA FF Bull etin 2 3 . Ano n. (1984) . La Famiglia della Tricholo motccens . Att i Convegn o Int ernationa le 10-15 Settembre 1984 , Borgo Val d i Taro, Italy. Balaban, K & Kot la ba , F (1970). Atlas drev oka zn ych H ub . Barnett , J A , Payne, R W & Yarrow , D (1983). Yeasts. Cha racteris tics a nd Iden tification . Basti en . P (1985J. )'ai d u mon ger des a manites martell es. Batista , A C et al (1960) . Atas do Instit uto de Micalogi o. Berthier, J (1986). Les Ph ysalacr iaceae du Globe. Bresin sk y, A & BesI. H (1985). Giftpilze. Brodie, H J (19 75 ). The Bird's Nest Fungi. Brodie, H J (1984) . More Bird 's Nest Fungi. Lejeu nia, Supp!. Coker, W C & Couch , J N (1974). Th e Gasteromycetes of the eastern Un ited States a nd Canada. Constantinescu, a (197 4), Metode si techni in micologie. Cooke, M C (1895) . Down the lan e and bock. Cooke, M C (1895) . Acr oss the com mon. Cunni n gh a m, G H (1963) , Th e Thelephoraceae of Aus tra lia a nd Ne w Zeala nd . Dennis , R W G , O rt on , P D & H ora , F B (1960). New Chec k List of British Aga rics an d Boleti. Eriksson, J, H jortst am, K & Ryva rd en , L (1984 ). The Carticiacea e of No rt h Eu ro pe. 7. Sch izop o ro Suill osp a riu m .
85 Fitzpatrick. H M (1923) . Monograph of th e Nitschkleae. Mycologia 15. Co vi , G (1966). Polyporaceoe Itol iane 1. 2. 3.Monti e Bosch i. Gu zman, G (1970) . Monografio del ge ne ro Scler oderma. Darwiniana 16 . ' Henderson , D M & Bennell, A P (1979 ). Briti sh Rust Fungi: additions and correc tions . Not es Roy. Bot. Gard .. Ed inb. Kits va n Waveren. E (1985) . Th e Dutch , Fren ch and Briti sh species of Psathyrella . Kreger van Rij. Ed. (1984). Th e Yeasts - a taxonomi c study . Edit. 3. Lorge. E C [1938). Asleep in the afternoon. Low e, J L (1966 ). Polyporo cea e of No rth Am er ica . Th e genu s Po ria. Moss. M 0 & S m it h. J E, Ed s. (1984 ). T he Appli ed Mycology of Fusarium. BMS Sy m posial Series 7. Peth yb rid ge, G H (1919) . Potat o Disen ses in Irela nd . 1910-1919.
Schinz, H & Keller. R (1909). Flora der Schweiz. 1 Teil : ExkursiansfJora. Smith, A H & Hesl er . L R (1942). Studies in North American species of Hygr aphorus II. Vesely, R, Katlaba, F & Pou zar, Z (1972). Prehled Cesko sloven skych Hub. Watling, R (1973). Identifica tion of the Larg er Fun gi.
Journals Bolets de Catalunya 4 (1985)Boletu s (1977)Bulleti Societat Cot alana de MicaJagia 9 (1965)Ficha s Tecnicas So cietal Catalano Micalagia Ser. III (1965)Mycolagia Helv et ica 1 (198 3)Th e Mycolog ist 1 (198 7)-
MYCONEWS The Willi Hennig Society has scheduled a Cladistic Symposium for the Summer 1988 in Stockholm . Anders Tehler (Dept Botany. Univ Stockholm, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden) would like to contact mycologists working on cladistic methods.
Gordon Conference on the Plant and Fungal Cytoskeleton will hold a session on Tip Growth from 8-12 August 1988. For details contact Dr I Brent Heath, Dept Biology, York Univ, 4700 Keele St, North York , Ontario, Canada M3J lP3.
For details of VII International Symposium on Yeasts from 1-5 August 1988 , contact A Martini, Dep Biologia Vegetabile, Un iver sita Degli Studio Piazza dell'Univer sita, 06100 Perugia , Ital y.
Mycological Society of America is organising the first annual auction o f mycological memorabilia, books, cultures, teaching slides etc for their Annual Meeting, 14-18 August 1988 at the Univ California, Davies, hoping to raise money for educational purposes.
American Phytopathological Society will hold its 1988 annual meeting from 13·17 November at the Town & Country Hotel in San Diego, California. Information and registration forms from APS Headquarters, 3340 Pilot Know Road, St Paul, MN 55121, USA . The 3rd Congress of the Arab Society for Plant Protection will be held at El-Ein Faculty of Agriculture, United Arab Emirates Universit y, 5·8 December 1988. For information write to Dr A R Saghir, Faculty of Agriculture, El-Ein, PO Box 15551 , United Arab Emirates or Dr K M Makkouk, ICSRDS, PO Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria. European & Mediterranean Cereal Rusts Conference will take place from 5-8 September 1988, in Vienna. For further details contact Dr B Zwatz, Federal Institute of Plant Protection, Trunnerstr. 5, A-l020 Vienna, Austria.
IMC IV, preliminary an nou ncemen t. The Fourth International Mycological Congress will be held at the University of Regensburg, West Germany from 28 August-3 September 1990. Further information can be obtained from Prof Dr A Bresinsky, Institute fur Botanik, Uni versilat Regensburg, Universitatsstrasse 31, Postfach 397, 8400 Regensburg, West Germany. A meeting on Rusts on Pines is planned for 24-28 September 1989 at Banff, Alberta, Canada. The programme includes paper presentations on taxonomy, life-cycle and distributions; host-parasite interactions; resistance screening methods; interactions with mycoparasites, insects and animals; hazard rating and loss estimates; management and control; and research collaboration and networking. Details available from Y Hiratsuka, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T8N OA5.
BMS NEWS Members of Council The following new Members we re a pp roved at th e AGM for th e per iod 1988-1990 : Mr G C Dickson War eham, Hants - Fun gal ph otogra p hy); Dr B 0 L FiU (Rothamst ed Exp St n Epide miology of foliar pathogen s); Dr R T V Fox (Un iv Reading - Soil borne pathogens) ; Dr S C Gregory (Forestry Commission , Sc otla nd - Forest pathology). 'Fungus Foray' v 'Field Excursion ' A recent discussion on Council ce ntre s around a suggestion to replace the term 'fungu s foray' with 'field ex cursio n' . Som e me mbers believed this would present a mor e professio nal and scientific image of the Soci ety to out side negotiating bodies. Th e term 'fu ngus fo ray' has been used by th e Societ y, and its predecessors, the Woolhope Naturalist s' Field Club and the Yorkshire Naturalists Un ion , sinc e 1867, and has since been adopted by every natural history societ y, both at home and abroad. Council would welcome yo ur views on the proposed ch an ge to 'fie ld excursio n ', so pl ease let the Gen er al Secretar y have you r thou ghts, in order th at a decision ca n be made befo re the publicati on of the 1989 p rog ram me . Se ts of fou r colour transparencies de pic ting th e ac ti viti es of the BMS a re now availab le. Th ey ma y be obtained through th e Society's slide-collect io n and are id eal to add to a lectu re o r talk to ex pla in what th e Soci et y does. Fr om 1988, th e Soc iet y 's representat ive o n th e British National Committee for Mi crobi ology w ill be the Pre sid ent, John Peberdy. Genetics, Molecular Biology & Evolution SIC The adve nt of re combinant DNA technology ha s gr eatly in creased the sc ope of b iotechnology by providing no vel ways of improving tr ad itional processes b y ope ning the wa y to totally novel products. Initially the hosts w ere bacteria but recently there has been an increasing interest in the use of yeasts and filamentous fungi (see J van Brunt, Biotechn ology 4: 1057, 1986) . Fungi are able to c arr y out post-translational mod ifications of prot eins and to secrete large qu antities of protei ns into the c ult ur e medium . Th e co rnm ercia] potential is stimulating research o n the mol ecular geneti cs of fungi and to en sure that th ese ex citing new developments are
reflected in the So ci et y's acti vities, GEMSIC has recruited a new member to represent th is field - Dr Jill Ogden (Delta Biotechnology Ltd , Nottingham). Her current research concerns the manipulation of filamentous fungi for the production of therapeutic proteins. Prior to this , sh e w o r ked on the ge netic s of resistance to antifungal compounds in Neu ro spora crassa, the co ntr ol of the cell cycle in Schizosaccharomyces pomb e, and gene expressi on in Saccharomyces cerv isiae. Pathogens & Mutualistics Interactions SIC In September, the SIC expects to pla y an im po rtan t role in th e symposium of 'Biotechno logy of Fungi for Improving Plant Growth ', which will include a day session in 'Inoculum Potential'. Looking ahead to 1989, plans are well advanced for the Berkeley Centenary Meeting on Phytoph thora, which will be held at Trinity College, Dublin, in conjunction with the British and Irish Societies for Plant Pathology. Catalogue of BMS Library. Supplement 1 The last revised catalogue was published in Bull. Br. m ycol. Soc. 18: 13-27 (1984). Am m ira ti , J F, T ra quai r, J A & Horden , P A (1985). Po isono us mu sh room s of Cona da incl uding oth er ed ible f ungi. An o n. (1934 ). Edib/e and Poisonou s Fun gi. MA FF Bull etin 2 3 . Ano n. (1984) . La Famiglia della Tricholo motccens . Att i Convegn o Int ernationa le 10-15 Settembre 1984 , Borgo Val d i Taro, Italy. Balaban, K & Kot la ba , F (1970). Atlas drev oka zn ych H ub . Barnett , J A , Payne, R W & Yarrow , D (1983). Yeasts. Cha racteris tics a nd Iden tification . Basti en . P (1985J. )'ai d u mon ger des a manites martell es. Batista , A C et al (1960) . Atas do Instit uto de Micalogi o. Berthier, J (1986). Les Ph ysalacr iaceae du Globe. Bresin sk y, A & BesI. H (1985). Giftpilze. Brodie, H J (19 75 ). The Bird's Nest Fungi. Brodie, H J (1984) . More Bird 's Nest Fungi. Lejeu nia, Supp!. Coker, W C & Couch , J N (1974). Th e Gasteromycetes of the eastern Un ited States a nd Canada. Constantinescu, a (197 4), Metode si techni in micologie. Cooke, M C (1895) . Down the lan e and bock. Cooke, M C (1895) . Acr oss the com mon. Cunni n gh a m, G H (1963) , Th e Thelephoraceae of Aus tra lia a nd Ne w Zeala nd . Dennis , R W G , O rt on , P D & H ora , F B (1960). New Chec k List of British Aga rics an d Boleti. Eriksson, J, H jortst am, K & Ryva rd en , L (1984 ). The Carticiacea e of No rt h Eu ro pe. 7. Sch izop o ro Suill osp a riu m .
85 Fitzpatrick. H M (1923) . Monograph of th e Nitschkleae. Mycologia 15. Co vi , G (1966). Polyporaceoe Itol iane 1. 2. 3.Monti e Bosch i. Gu zman, G (1970) . Monografio del ge ne ro Scler oderma. Darwiniana 16 . ' Henderson , D M & Bennell, A P (1979 ). Briti sh Rust Fungi: additions and correc tions . Not es Roy. Bot. Gard .. Ed inb. Kits va n Waveren. E (1985) . Th e Dutch , Fren ch and Briti sh species of Psathyrella . Kreger van Rij. Ed. (1984). Th e Yeasts - a taxonomi c study . Edit. 3. Lorge. E C [1938). Asleep in the afternoon. Low e, J L (1966 ). Polyporo cea e of No rth Am er ica . Th e genu s Po ria. Moss. M 0 & S m it h. J E, Ed s. (1984 ). T he Appli ed Mycology of Fusarium. BMS Sy m posial Series 7. Peth yb rid ge, G H (1919) . Potat o Disen ses in Irela nd . 1910-1919.
Schinz, H & Keller. R (1909). Flora der Schweiz. 1 Teil : ExkursiansfJora. Smith, A H & Hesl er . L R (1942). Studies in North American species of Hygr aphorus II. Vesely, R, Katlaba, F & Pou zar, Z (1972). Prehled Cesko sloven skych Hub. Watling, R (1973). Identifica tion of the Larg er Fun gi.
Journals Bolets de Catalunya 4 (1985)Boletu s (1977)Bulleti Societat Cot alana de MicaJagia 9 (1965)Ficha s Tecnicas So cietal Catalano Micalagia Ser. III (1965)Mycolagia Helv et ica 1 (198 3)Th e Mycolog ist 1 (198 7)-
MYCONEWS The Willi Hennig Society has scheduled a Cladistic Symposium for the Summer 1988 in Stockholm . Anders Tehler (Dept Botany. Univ Stockholm, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden) would like to contact mycologists working on cladistic methods.
Gordon Conference on the Plant and Fungal Cytoskeleton will hold a session on Tip Growth from 8-12 August 1988. For details contact Dr I Brent Heath, Dept Biology, York Univ, 4700 Keele St, North York , Ontario, Canada M3J lP3.
For details of VII International Symposium on Yeasts from 1-5 August 1988 , contact A Martini, Dep Biologia Vegetabile, Un iver sita Degli Studio Piazza dell'Univer sita, 06100 Perugia , Ital y.
Mycological Society of America is organising the first annual auction o f mycological memorabilia, books, cultures, teaching slides etc for their Annual Meeting, 14-18 August 1988 at the Univ California, Davies, hoping to raise money for educational purposes.
American Phytopathological Society will hold its 1988 annual meeting from 13·17 November at the Town & Country Hotel in San Diego, California. Information and registration forms from APS Headquarters, 3340 Pilot Know Road, St Paul, MN 55121, USA . The 3rd Congress of the Arab Society for Plant Protection will be held at El-Ein Faculty of Agriculture, United Arab Emirates Universit y, 5·8 December 1988. For information write to Dr A R Saghir, Faculty of Agriculture, El-Ein, PO Box 15551 , United Arab Emirates or Dr K M Makkouk, ICSRDS, PO Box 5466, Aleppo, Syria. European & Mediterranean Cereal Rusts Conference will take place from 5-8 September 1988, in Vienna. For further details contact Dr B Zwatz, Federal Institute of Plant Protection, Trunnerstr. 5, A-l020 Vienna, Austria.
IMC IV, preliminary an nou ncemen t. The Fourth International Mycological Congress will be held at the University of Regensburg, West Germany from 28 August-3 September 1990. Further information can be obtained from Prof Dr A Bresinsky, Institute fur Botanik, Uni versilat Regensburg, Universitatsstrasse 31, Postfach 397, 8400 Regensburg, West Germany. A meeting on Rusts on Pines is planned for 24-28 September 1989 at Banff, Alberta, Canada. The programme includes paper presentations on taxonomy, life-cycle and distributions; host-parasite interactions; resistance screening methods; interactions with mycoparasites, insects and animals; hazard rating and loss estimates; management and control; and research collaboration and networking. Details available from Y Hiratsuka, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T8N OA5.