''Sydowia'' is a biannual

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covering the study of

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, including their

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, pathology in

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, and

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, and biotechnological applications. It is published by

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. Its

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History

The journal was originally established in 1903 under the title ''Annales Mycologici'' by founding editor

Hans Sydow Hans Sydow (29 January 1879 – 6 June 1946) was a German mycologist and the son of mycologist and lichenologist, Paul Sydow (1851–1925). Career Hans Sydow worked at the Dresdner Bank in Berlin between 1904 and 1937 rising to divisional mana ...

. It was continued as ''Annales mycologici, series II'' and retitled with the prefix ''Sydowia'' in Sydow's honour following his death in 1946. ''Sydowia'' was edited by

Franz Petrak Franz Petrak (9 October 1886, Mährisch-Weißkirchen – 9 October 1973, Vienna) was an Austrian-Czech mycologist. From 1906 to 1910, he studied botany at the University of Vienna, where he was a student of Richard Wettstein. In 1913 he obtaine ...

from 1947 until his death in 1973.

Egon Horak Egon Horak (born Innsbruck in 1937) is an Austrian mycologist who has described more than 1000 species of fungi, including many from the Southern Hemisphere, particularly New Zealand and South America. He was an executive editor of the scientific ...

succeeded him until 1989.

Orlando Petrini Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida, Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Greater Orlando, Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, acco ...

took over from 1989 to 1996 and

Liliane Petrini Liliane is a given name for women, most often used where French is spoken, a variant of Lillian and Lily, associated with the flower name Lily, genus Lilium. People with this name *Liliane Ackermann (1938–2007), French writer of a Jewish famil ...

until 2004. ''Sydowia'' was published bimonthly from 1947 and biannually since 1992. Now published in English, earlier volumes included papers in English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Volumes since 2012 are available online. Volumes 1 to 30 are freely available online. Sydowia Volumes 1–30

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: *

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/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2013

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of 0.213.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sydowia Publications established in 1903 Mycology journals English-language journals Biannual journals Verlag Berger academic journals