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Royall Tyler Moore (October 11, 1930 – August 17, 2014) was an American-born
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 mycology professor.


Education and work

He received his doctorate from the
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
in 1959, writing his dissertation on the fungal genus '' Sporidesmium''. Later, he worked at
Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
, the
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
, and
North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...
on the classification and development of
fungi A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...
before joining the faculty at
Ulster University at Coleraine , image = , caption = ''The Coleraine Campus in 2007'' , motto = No motto , motto_lang = , mottoeng = , established = 1968 – Coleraine Campus ...
. Moore bequeathed almost $500,000 to Cornell University to promote the study of mycology.


Selected publications

* Moore, RT. 1959. The ''Sporidesmium'' complex. Thesis (Ph. D.), Dept. of Biology, Harvard University. * Moore, RT. 1959. The genus ''Berkleasmium''. ''
Mycologia ''Mycologia'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers on all aspects of the fungi, including lichens. It first appeared as a bimonthly journal in January 1909, published by the New York Botanical Garden under the editorship of W ...
'' 51(5): 734–739. * Moore, RT. 1960. Fine Structure of Mycota 2. Demonstration of the haustoria of lichens. ''Mycologia'' 52(5): 805–807. * Moore, RT. 1963. Fine Structure of Mycota XI. Occurrence of the golgi dictyosome in the heterobasidiomycete ''Puccinia podophylli''. ''
Journal of Bacteriology The ''Journal of Bacteriology'' is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1916. It is published by the American Society for Microbiology and the editor in chief is George A. O'Toole (Dartmouth College). The journal is delayed o ...
'' 86(4): 866-871. * Moore, RT. 1989. Alicean taxonomy–small characters made large. ''
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society The ''Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society'' is a scientific journal publishing original papers relating to the taxonomy of all plant groups and fungi, including anatomy, biosystematics, cytology, ecology, ethnobotany, electron microscopy, mo ...
'' 99(1): 59–79. * Moore, RT. 1992. The genus ''Bauhinus'' gen. nov.: for species of ''Ustilago'' on dicot hosts. ''
Mycotaxon ''Mycotaxon'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the nomenclature and taxonomy of fungi, including lichens. The journal was founded by Grégoire L. Hennebert and Richard P. Korf in 1974. They were frustrated that papers submitted t ...
'' 45: 97–100.


See also

*
List of mycologists This is a non-exhaustive list of mycologists, or scientists with a specialisation in mycology, with their author abbreviations. Because the study of lichens is traditionally considered a branch of mycology, lichenologists are included in this lis ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Royall T. American mycologists 1930 births 2014 deaths 20th-century American botanists Harvard University alumni Academics of Ulster University