Systematic mycology

Systematic Mycology

Research topics

  • Rust fungi of the neotropics and southern Africa

  • Taxonomy of rust fungi of the world

  • Biodiversity of European rust fungi

Interdisciplinary

  • Cooperation with rust taxonomists in South America (mainly Brazil), South Africa, Australia and Asia (Japan, India, Pakistan)

  • Herbarium services (Zurich Herbaria): Loans of specimens, deposition of vouchers

Contact Person

PD Dr. Reinhard Berndt

ETH Zurich
Institute of Integrative Biology
Website
reinhard.berndt-at-env.ethz.ch
+41 (0)44 632 61 13

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Recent publications

  • Title: Additions to the rust fungi of South Africa
    Author(s): Berndt, Reinhard; Wood, Alan R.
    Source: MYCOLOGICAL PROGRESS, 11 (2): 483-497 MAY 2012
    Document type: Article (Details)
  • Title: Taxonomic revision of Endoraecium digitatum (rust fungi, Uredinales) with description of four new species from Australia and Hawaii
    Author(s): Berndt, Reinhard
    Source: MYCOLOGICAL PROGRESS, 10 (4): 497-517 NOV 2011
    Document type: Article (Details)
  • Cryptic speciation in Hymenoscyphus albidus
    Queloz, V; Grunig, CR; Berndt, R; et al.
    FOREST PATHOLOGY 41 (2): 133-142 APR 2011 (Details)
  • The Puccinia species of Berkheya (Asteraceae) with description of four new species from South Africa
    Berndt, R
    MYCOLOGIA Y 102 (6): 1437-1449 NOV-DEC 2010 (Details)
  • Rust fungi on Annonaceae: the genus Sphaerophragmium
    Beenken, L; Berndt, R
    MYCOLOGIA Y 102 (3): 650-663 MAY-JUN 2010 (Details)