Professeur Hongō Tsuguo 1989 8-25 Asahinomori

was a Japanese

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 ...

who specialized in the

biogeography Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, ...

and

taxonomy Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification. A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...

Agaricales The fungal order Agaricales, also known as gilled mushrooms (for their distinctive gills) or euagarics, contains some of the most familiar types of mushrooms. The order has 33 extant families, 413 genera, and over 13,000 described species, alo ...

. Hongo entered the Department of Biology at what is now

Hiroshima University is a Japanese national university located in Higashihiroshima and Hiroshima, Japan. Established in 1929, it was chartered as a university in 1949 following the merge of a number of national educational institutions. History Under the Nationa ...

in 1943, where he studied

botany 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 w ...

until graduating in 1946 with a B.Sc. Hongo received his Ph.D. degree, entitled "

of Japan", from

Kyoto University , mottoeng = Freedom of academic culture , established = , type = National university, Public (National) , endowment = ¥ 316 billion (2.4 1000000000 (number), billion USD) , faculty = 3,480 (Teaching Staff) , administrative_staff ...

in 1961 while working under Dr. Shiro Kitamura. He was president of the Mycological Society of Japan from 1987 to 1989. In 2003 he was awarded the

Minakata Kumagusu was a Japanese author, biologist, naturalist and ethnologist. Biography Minakata was born in Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. In 1883, he moved to Tokyo, where he entered the preparatory school '' Kyōryū Gakkō''. The headmaster of ...

Award for contributions to mycology. Hongo published more than 130 scientific papers and 9 books. He also described 215 new taxa of Agaricales from a variety of locations. Fungus species named after Hongo include: '' Amanita hongoi'', ''

Boletus hongoi ''Boletus'' is a genus of mushroom-producing fungi, comprising over 100 species. The genus ''Boletus'' was originally broadly defined and described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, essentially containing all fungi with hymenial pores instead of gil ...

'', '' Xerula hongoi'', ''

Pluteus hongoi ''Pluteus'' is a large genus of fungi with over 300 species. They are wood rotting saprobes with pink spore prints and gills that are free from the stem. The Latin word ''Pluteus'' means ''shed or penthouse''. Characteristics of the genus ...

'', ''

Russula hongoi ''Russula'' is a very large genus composed of around 750 worldwide species of ectomycorrhizal mushrooms. They are typically common, fairly large, and brightly colored – making them one of the most recognizable genera among mycologists and mushr ...

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Strobilomyces hongoi ''Strobilomyces'' is a genus of boletes (mushrooms having a spongy mass of pores under the cap). The only well-known European species is the type species '' S. strobilaceus'' (also named ''S. floccopus''), known in English as "old man of the wood ...

'', and ''

Tylopilus hongoi ''Tylopilus hongoi'' is a bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae found in Japan, where it grows in coniferous forest under fir, spruce, and birch. It is named after mycologist Tsuguo Hongo was a Japanese mycologist who specialized in the bio ...

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Selected publications

* Imazeki R, Hongo T. (1957). Genshoku Nihon Kinrui Zukan olored Illustrations of Fungi of Japan Vol. 1,　181 pp. Japan, Osaka; Hoikusha Publishing Co., Ltd. * Imazeki R, Hongo T. (1965). Genshoku Nihon Kinrui Zukan　 olored Illustrations of Fungi of Japan Vol. 2, 224 pp. Japan, Osaka; Hoikusha Publishing Co., Ltd. *Imazeki R, Hongo T. (1987). Genshoku Nihon Shin Kinrui Zukan　 ew Colored Illustrations of Mushrooms of Japan Vol. 1. 315 pp. Osaka, Japan; Hoikusha Publishing Co., Ltd. *Imazeki R, Otani Y, Hongo, T. (1988). Nihon no Kinoko ungi of Japan 623 pp. Tokyo, Japan; Yama-Kei Publishers Co., Ltd. *Imazeki R, Hongo T. (1989). Genshoku Nihon Shin Kinrui Zukan　 ew Colored Illustrations of Mushrooms of Japan Vol. 2. 316 pp. Osaka, Japan; Hoikusha Publishing Co., Ltd. *Hongo T. (1989). Selected Mycological Papers of Dr. Tsuguo Hongo eprinted by Shiga University, Faculty of Education, Laboratory of Biology 362 pp. Otsu, Japan; Shiga University. *Hongo T, Ueda T, Izawa M. (1994). ushrooms 384 pp. Tokyo; Yama-kei Publishers Co., Ltd.

References

*Clémençon H. Dr. Tsuguo Hongo (1923–2007). ''Mycoscience''. 2007 48:326–327. Japanese biologists People from Shiga Prefecture 1923 births 2007 deaths Hiroshima University alumni 20th-century biologists Japanese taxonomists {{Mycologist-stub

See also

Selected publications

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