Gábor Bohus (1914–2005) was a Hungarian

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, genetics, biochemical properties, and use by humans. Fungi can be a source of tinder, food, traditional medicine, as well as entheogens, poison, and ...

born on 4 July 1914 in

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Early life

Gábor Bohus was born to Paula Kitschalesz and Róbert Bohus on 4 July 1914. Paula maintained a garden at home and Róbert was a student of László Szemere's mushroom study course so Gábor was exposed to the plants and mushrooms that he would spend his life studying from a young age. He graduated from the Lutheran high school in Fasor and went on to study at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Pázmány Péter University from 1932 to 1937 where he studied botany, chemistry and mineralogy. His 1937 doctoral dissertation explored artificial breeding of '' Clasterosporium carpophilum'' with mushrooms. Gábor then joined the Museum of Natural Sciences in 1937 and became an unpaid intern at the botanical garden before being granted a scholarship. Between 1938 and 1945 he was called up for military service several times and spent a total of 45 months in service however he continued his research into mushrooms during the war and kept a microscope with him even whilst in service. Despite his military service he was still able to publish dozens of papers during this time.

Career

Gábor became the deputy head of the Botanical Garden at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences after World War II but the mushroom collection had been lost, despite being removed to the countryside to try to prevent it from being destroyed by bombing. He therefore set to rebuilding the collection of preserved specimens along with Lórántné Babos and developed the modified Herpell method of preserving mushroom specimens.

Margit Babos Margit Babos (maiden name Margit Greskovits, 1931–2009) was a Hungarian mycologist born on 28 October 1931 in Budapest. She became one of the most widely recognized mycologists in the second half of the 20th century in Eastern Europe, with cont ...

worked under Bohus and used this method to prepare over 20,000 mushroom specimens for the macrofungi collection. This method is still used by the

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today and a large amount of the macroscopic fungi specimens it holds were prepared by Bohus and Babos. Gábor worked at the botanical gardens and museum for nearly 68 years before retiring in 1974 due to hearing loss caused by high blood pressure. He continued to regularly visit and work with mushrooms until his death in 2005 aged 90.

Species described

Bohus published numerous papers on ''

Agaricus ''Agaricus'' is a genus of mushroom-forming fungi containing both edible and poisonous species, with over 400 members worldwide and possibly again as many disputed or newly discovered species. The genus includes the common ("button") mushroom ...

'' species and was responsible for describing many species including: * '' Agaricus annulospecialis'' * '' Agaricus babosiae'' * '' Agaricus bernardiiformis'' * '' Agaricus bobosi'' * '' Agaricus bresadolanus'' * '' Agaricus cappellii'' * '' Agaricus macrosporoides'' * '' Agaricus pseudoumbrella'' * '' Agaricus silvicolae-similis'' * '' Armillaria rickenii'' * '' Coprinus mitrisporus'' * '' Cortinarius ammophiloides'' * '' Cortinarius diabolicorigens'' * '' Cortinarius moserianus'' * '' Cortinarius paracephalixus'' * '' Cortinarius parfumatus'' * '' Cortinarius subcompar'' * '' Hebeloma ammophilum'' * '' Hebeloma ochroalbidum'' * '' Hebeloma psammicola'' * '' Lepista irinoides'' * '' Psalliota pseudopratensis'' The species variant '' Tricholoma populinum var. bohusii'' is named for Gábor Bohus as a commemoration of his work in Hungarian mycology. Other species named for Bohus include '' Lepista bohusii'' which was described based on Bohus' variant ''Lepista luscina var. irinoides,'' '' Agaricus bohusii'' and '' Leucoagaricus bohusii'' (originally ''Leucocoprinus bohusi).''

Publications

During his life Bohus authored or co-authored a number of books and journals on plants and mushrooms. This is a partial list: * 1937 ''Mesterséges tenyésztési kísérletek a Clasterosporium carpophilum (Lév.) Aderh. gombával'' * 1942 ''Über die Giftigkeit der "Weissen" Clitocyben. (Clitocybe corda Schulz.)'' * 1944 ''Enumeratio critica Boletorum Hungariae.'' * 1944 ''A magyarországi Boletue-dk kritikai felsorolása.'' * 1951 ''Magyarország kalaposgombáinak meghatározó kézikönyve. Irta: Bohus G., Kalmár Zoltán, Ubrizsy Gábor. (A rajzokat Lakatos Mária készítette.)'' * 1952 ''Növénytársulások, életfeltételek, a gombafajok száma és mennyisége a budaihegységi Hársbokorhegyen és környékén.'' * 1953 ''A búza kőüszögjét okozó Tilletia-fajok hő- és talajnedvességi igényére vonatkozó vizsgálatok''. * 1953 ''Magyarország virágtalan növényeinek kézikönyve'' * 1953 ''Magyarország virágtalan növényeinek határozó. Rész 2, Magyarország nagygombái a kalaposgombák kivételével'' * 1953 ''Magyarország nagygombái a kalaposgombák kivételével : II. rész'' * 1954 ''A kalaposgombákra (Agaricales) vonatkozó rendszertani és ökológiai kutatások eredményei 1'' * 1954. ''A csiperkegomba termésmennyiségének növelésére irányuló kutatások'' * 1954 ''A Hársbokor-hegy környékén lévő erdőtársulásokban termő gomba súlyára vonatkozó mérések és számítások'' * 1955 ''Fenolszármazékok fungicid hatása.'' * 1956 ''On the drought-resistance of Fungi.'' * 1957 ''The effects of temperature and pressure on fungi causing wood-decay.'' * 1957 ''On the results of researches concerning the temperature claims of macroscopic fungi.'' * 1959-1962 ''Magyarország kultúrflórája 1/A., 1/B. köt Virágtalanok'' * 1960 ''Notes on the occurrence in Hungary of Russula species, with regard to their range in Europe.'' * 1960 ''Coenology of terricolous macroscopic fungi of deciduous forests. Contributions to our knowledge of their behaviour in Hungary'' * 1960 ''Notes on the occurrence in Hungary of Russula species, with regard to their range in Europe.'' * 1961 ''Psalliota studies. I.: Critical species, critical notes.'' * 1961 ''A termesztett csiperke : 39 ábrával'' * 1961 ''Erdő-mező gombái'' * 1961-1962 ''Virágtalanok. Füzet F/1-F/2, Függelék'' * 1962 ''Der Formenkreis des Agaricus (Psalliota) bisporus (Lange) Treschow und die Benützung der wildwachsenden Formen (Sorten) beim Züchtungsverfahren.'' * 1962 ''A kalaposgombákra /Agaricales-re/ vonat-kozó rendszertani és ökológiai vizsgálatok eredményei, V.'' * 1963 ''A gombacönológiai kutatás módszertana. (Methodology of myco-coenological research of fungi)'' * 1966 ''Leucopaxillus-Arten in Ungarn'' * 1966 ''Savanyú talajú lomberdők mikocönológiai vizsgálata Magyarországon. (The mycocoenological investigation of acidophilous deciduous forests in Hungary).'' * 1967 ''Mycocoenological investigation of acidophilous deciduous forests in Hungary'' * 1969 ''Agaricus studies II.'' * 1970 ''Interessantere Cortinarius-Arten aus dem Karpaten-Becken.'' * 1970 ''A kalaposgombákra (Agaricales) vonatkozó rendszertani és ökológiai kutatások eredményei. VI.'' * 1971 ''Agaricus studies III.'' * 1972 ''Hebeloma studies I.'' * 1973 ''Soil acidity and the occurrence of fungi in deciduous forests.'' * 1973 ''Adatok a talajlakó nagygombák szerepéhez lomberdei ökoszisztémákban. (Data to the role of terricolous macrofungi in deciduous forest ecosystems).'' * 1974 ''Agaricus studies, IV.'' * 1975 ''Agaricus studies, V.'' * 1975 ''A Kárpát-medence Agaricus fajainak áttekin-tése. Agaricus species in Carpathian Basin.'' * 1976 ''Agaricus studies, VI.'' * 1976 ''Interessantere Cortinarius-Arten aus dem Karpaten-Becken, II.'' * 1977 ''Fungorum rariorum icones coloratae. 8'' * 1978 ''Hebeloma studies, II. (Basidiomycetes, Cortinariaceae).'' * 1978 ''Agaricus studies, VIII. (Basidiomycetes, Agaricaceae).'' * 1979 ''Interessante Cortinarius-Arten aus dem Karpaten-Becken (Agaricales, Cortinariaceae), III.'' * 1979 ''Termőhelyismeret. – Középfokú gombaismerő i tanfolyam jegyzete, Budapest'' * 1979 ''Some results of systematical and ecological research on Agaricales, VII.'' * 1980 ''Agaricus studies, IX. (Basidiomycetes, Agaricaceae). Agaricus flora in the Carpathian Basin.'' * 1981 ''Some results of systematical and ecological research on Agaricales, VIII.'' * 1983 ''Some results of systematical and ecological research on Agaricales, IX.'' * 1984 ''Erdőtípusok talajlakó gombacönózisainak néhány jellemzőjéről, összefüggéséről - Mikológiai Közlemények'' * 1984 ''Studies on the pH requirement of soil-inhabiting mushrooms: the R-spectra of mushroom assemblages in deciduous forest communities. - Acta Botanica Hungarica'' * 1985 ''Tricholoma sectio Iorigida Sing. in Europe and North Africa.'' * 1989 ''Agaricus studies, X. (Basidiomycetes, Agaricaceae).'' * 1990 ''Agaricus studies, XI. (Basidiomycetes, Agaricaceae). A monographical key.'' * 1991 ''Zwei neue Pilztaxa aus Ungarn (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales).'' * 1994 ''Magyarország csiperke gombái. (The Agaricus species in Hungary)'' * 1998 ''Genetic resource collection of macrofungi in Hungary.'' * 1999 ''Two new fungus species from Hungary (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales).'' * 1999-2000 ''Diagnoses latinae of the new subsections of the subgenus Agaricus.'' * 2001 ''Vizsgálatok az immunstimuláns Lentinus cyathiformis (Schff.: Fr.) Bres. ökológiájára vonatkozóan 1.'' * 2003 ''Vizsgálatok az immunstimuláns Lentinus cyathiformis (Schff.: Fr.) Bres. ökológiájára vonatkozóan 2.'' * 2005 ''Psalliota/Agaricus studies I-XIII''

References

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