Marin Molliard (8 June 1866, in

Châtillon-Coligny Châtillon-Coligny () is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. The Loing and the Briare Canal run through the town. Sights and monuments * Château de Châtillon-Coligny Notable people *Gaspard I de Coligny (c.1465-1522 ...

– 24 July 1944, in

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) was a French

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. From 1888 he studied at the

École Normale Supérieure École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

in Paris, where he successively earned degrees in mathematics (1889), physics (1890) and natural sciences (1891). In 1892 he obtained his

agrégation In France, the ''agrégation'' () is a competitive examination for civil service in the French public education system. Candidates for the examination, or ''agrégatifs'', become ''agrégés'' once they are admitted to the position of ''professe ...

, and two years later became ''chef de travaux'' to the faculty of sciences at Paris.Molliard, Marin (1866-1944)
IDREF.fr In 1922 he became a lecturer at the École Normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, and from 1923 to 1936 served as director of the laboratory of plant biology in Avon. In 1937 he received the title of honorary professor.Molliard, Marin
Sociétés savantes de France In 1923 he was named president of the

Société botanique de France The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854. At its inaugural meeting it stated its purpose as "to contribute to the progress of botany and related sciences and to facilitate, by all means at its di ...

. During the same year he was elected as a member of the

Académie des sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the ...

(section of botany). In 1904 he was the first to describe

conidia A conidium ( ; ), sometimes termed an asexual chlamydospore or chlamydoconidium (), is an asexual, non-motile spore of a fungus. The word ''conidium'' comes from the Ancient Greek word for dust, ('). They are also called mitospores due to the ...

in the fungal genus ''

Sarcoscypha ''Sarcoscypha'' is a genus of ascomycete fungus and type genus of the family Sarcoscyphaceae. Species of ''Sarcoscypha'' are present in Europe, North America and tropical Asia. They are characterised by a cup-shaped apothecium which is often bri ...

''. In 1984 John W. Paden introduced the generic name '' Molliardiomyces'' for the

anamorph In mycology, the terms teleomorph, anamorph, and holomorph apply to portions of the life cycles of fungi in the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota: *Teleomorph: the sexual reproductive stage (morph), typically a fruiting body. *Anamorph: an ase ...

ic states of ''Sarcoscypha'' and the related genus '' Phillipsia''.Germination and Anamorphs
GBIF Mycology

Selected works

* ''Recherches sur les cécidies florales'', 1895 – Research of floral

gall Galls (from the Latin , 'oak-apple') or ''cecidia'' (from the Greek , anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to be ...

s. * ''Nutrition de la plante'' (4 volumes, 1921–25) – Plant nutrition. ** I. ''Echanges d'eau et de substances minérales''. ** II. ''Formation des substances ternaires''. ** III. ''Utilisation des substances ternaires''. ** IV. ''Cycle de l'azote''.

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