NAMC – Newsletter of the Asian Mycological Committee

E.Esfandiari F.Petrak G. Scharif
4. Fourth period: from 1963 to 2000
This period is distinct from other periods for the following reasons:
i. Until this period, no artificial media were used in order to grow/identify the fungi. In
this period after the foundation of the Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection
in Tehran equipments and materials for culture of fungi were prepared and
developed. Therefore, it became possible to work on most fungal species. This type
of research was initiated in Iranian universities at 1963.
ii. In this period due to the growing number of Iranian mycologists and plant
pathologists most of the work on Iranian fungi was done by Iranian mycologists.
iii. In earlier periods most papers on the identification of fungi of Iran were generally
covering all groups of fungi, but in this period papers on specific fungal groups in
addition to identification monographs on the fungi of Iran were published.
Due to the rather large number of Iranian mycologists in this period we refrain from
writing their names. But we feel it is necessary to introduce foreign researchers who
contributed to Iranian mycology in this period.
1. E. Niemann was a German plant pathologist who for many years worked for the
Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection as a colleague of Iranian