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NAMC – Newsletter of the Asian Mycological Committee

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Djafar Ershad and Rasoul Zare<br />

Research Institute <strong>of</strong> Plant Protection<br />

Iranian Research Institute <strong>of</strong> Plant Protection<br />

Mycology in Iran: A historical review<br />

Study <strong>of</strong> fungi in Iran was initiated by foreign mycologists. Most <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se mycologists have not<br />

visited Iran but <strong>the</strong>y received fungal material from botanists who came to Iran for plant<br />

collections. These botanists also collected fungi separately or <strong>the</strong>ir plant material was examined<br />

by mycologists for epiphytic/parasitic fungi. As <strong>the</strong> result <strong>the</strong> list <strong>of</strong> fungi separately or toge<strong>the</strong>r<br />

with <strong>the</strong> list <strong>of</strong> plants was published in European literature.<br />

In order to summarize <strong>the</strong> history <strong>of</strong> mycology in Iran five periods are described here:

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