Augusto Napoleone Berlese (21 October 1864, in

Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...

– 26 January 1903, in

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) was an Italian botanist and mycologist. He was the brother of entomologist

Antonio Berlese Antonio Berlese (26 June 1863, in Padua – 24 October 1927, in Florence) was an Italian entomologist. Career Berlese worked on pest insects notably of fruit trees. He published over 300 articles and a book ''Gli insetti loro organizzazione, sv ...

1863–1927, with whom he founded the journal ''Rivista di patologia vegetale'' in 1892. He studied natural sciences at the

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, where following graduation, he worked for several years as a botanical assistant (1885–1889). Later on, he taught classes at the

viticulture Viticulture (from the Latin word for '' vine'') or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of '' Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ...

school in Avellino (from 1892), and at the universities of

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(from 1895) and Sassari (from 1899). In 1901 he was appointed professor of phytopathology at the agricultural college in Milan. The mycological genus ''Berlesiella'' (family Herpotrichiellaceae) was named in his honor by

Pier Andrea Saccardo Pier Andrea Saccardo (23 April 1845 in Treviso, Treviso – 12 February 1920 in Padua) was an Italian botanist and mycologist. Life Saccardo studied at the Lyceum in Venice, and then at the Technical Institute of the University of Padua wher ...

Selected works

He was the author of the multi-volume series ''Icones Fungorum'' (1890–1905). He also made major contributions to Saccardo'
''Sylloge Fungorum''
The following are a few of his other noted works: * ''Monografia dei generi Pleospora, Clathrospora e Pyrenophora'', 1888 – Monograph on the genera ''

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'', '' Clathrospora'' and ''

Pyrenophora The fungal genus ''Pyrenophora'' includes 191 species, including the following plant pathogenic species: '' P. teres'', '' P. graminea'' and '' P. tritici-repentis''. ''P. teres'' ( teleomorph ''Drechslera teres'') makes up to 3 conidia per c ...

''. * ''Micromycetes Tridentini : contribuzione allo studio dei funghi microscopici del Trentino'' (with

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, 1889) – "Micromycetes Trento"; a contribution to the study of the microscopic fungi of

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. * ''Fungi moricolae. Iconografia e descrizione dei funghi parassiti dei gelso'', 1889 – Fungi moricolae. Iconography and description of parasitic fungi of the

mulberry tree ''Morus'', a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, consists of diverse species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions. Generally, the genus has 64 identif ...

. * ''I parasiti vegetali delle piante coltivate o utili'', 1894 – Plant parasites of cultivated or useful plants.Most widely held works by A. N Berlese
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Berlese, Augusto Napoleone 1864 births 1903 deaths Scientists from Padua University of Padua alumni Academic staff of the University of Sassari 19th-century Italian botanists Italian mycologists Phytopathologists