John William Gibson Cairney (1959–2012) was an eminent Scottish–Australian

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

and Director of the UWS Centre for Plants and the Environment. Cairney specialised in mycorrhizal biology and ecology, particularly of ericoid- and

Ectomycorrhiza An ectomycorrhiza (from Greek ἐκτός ', "outside", μύκης ', "fungus", and ῥίζα ', "root"; pl. ectomycorrhizas or ectomycorrhizae, abbreviated EcM) is a form of symbiotic relationship that occurs between a fungal symbiont, or mycobi ...

. Cairney contributed significantly to mycorrhizal research, publishing over 150 manuscripts and serving as the associate editor, editor or on the advisoral panel for numerous scientific journals including: '' New Phytologist'', '' Plant and Soil'', ''

Mycological Research ''Fungal Biology'' is a scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed papers on all aspects of basic and applied research of the fungi, including lichens, yeasts, oomycetes, and slime moulds. A publication of the British Mycological Society, it w ...

'' and the ''Journal of Soils and Sediments''. The Australian ericoid mycorrhizal fungal genus '' Cairneyella'' is named in his honour.

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