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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 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 ...
and mycology professor.


Education and work

He received his doctorate from the
Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
in 1959, writing his dissertation on the fungal genus '' Sporidesmium''. Later, he worked at
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, the
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, and
North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State, North Carolina State, NC State University, or NCSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1887 and p ...
on the classification and development of
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before joining the faculty at Ulster University at Coleraine. 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''. ''
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'' 86(4): 866-871. * Moore, RT. 1989. Alicean taxonomy–small characters made large. '' Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society'' 99(1): 59–79. * Moore, RT. 1992. The genus ''Bauhinus'' gen. nov.: for species of ''Ustilago'' on dicot hosts. '' Mycotaxon'' 45: 97–100.


See also

* :Taxa named by Royall T. Moore * List of mycologists


References

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