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Links

The following sites contain information and databases relevant to African mycologists. Each section is listed in alphabetical order:

Universities and Institutions:

Agricultural Research Council (ARC)

FABI - Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute

Regional Centre for Mycology and Biotechnology

South African National Collection of Fungi (PREM)

University of Botswana

University of Mauritius

University of Nairobi

Resources:

African Society for Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms

AGIS (Agricultural Geo-Referenced Information System)

All fungi Barcoding

ASCOfrance (ascomycete taxonomy in Europe and provides a forum for general ascomycete taxonomy)

Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life

Authors of Fungal Names version 2

BPI (including South African phytopathogenic fungi database)

CABI and CABI Bioscience Databases

Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures (CBS)

Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL)

Cyberliber (digital library for mycology, providing scanned images of pages of mycological literature)

Cybernome (a nomenclatural and taxonomic database for fungi and their associated organisms, providing direct onward links to global standard nomenclatural databases)

Cybertruffle's Fungal Valhalla (a website providing information about now dead mycologists)

Cybertruffle's Robigalia (Observations of fungi and their associated organisms)

Darwin Initiative for the conservation of microfungi

Deep hypha (also see Vol. 98, no. 6 issue of Mycologia on Mycological Society of America webpage)

Encyclopedia of life

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Global slime mold project (databases for slime mold collections, images, current taxonomy, protocols and educational resources)

Henry Stewart talks (on various biological topics for lectures)

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature – Vienna code

International Field Guides

International Mycological Association (with links to other mycological societies and associations, and numerous useful mycological links)

International Society for Plant Pathology

IUCN Sampled Index for Microfungi

Mycokey (includes information on the interactive fungal identification program Mycokey, and other research done such as studies on the Fungi of Burkino Faso)

Mycology.net (useful mycological links)

Myconet (online journal, "Outline of Ascomycota" and "Notes on ascomycete systematics")

Mycology Resources

National Botanic Garden of Belgium - Species database of African fungi

National Center for Biotechnology Information (sequences)

NZFUNGI - New Zealand Fungi (and Bacteria) Landcare

Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book

South African Association of Botanists

South African Genetics Society

South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)

South African Society for Microbiology

South African Society for Plant Pathology

USDA SMBL databases (Index of Fungi etc.)

Wild Edible fungi (A global overview of their use and importance to people)

Wild Useful Fungi

World Taxonomists Database

Congresses:

e-Biosphere 09, the International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics, London, UK, 1-5 June 2009

International Mycological Congress (IMC9) (hosted by the British Mycological Society), Edinburgh, Scotland, 1-6 August 2010

Funding:

BioNet - The Global network for Taxonomy

Gender & Diversity program of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) (mentoring and funding)

IFS (International Foundation of Science) Granting Programme

Societies: