Message #143552

[Bianca]

A new generation of Chinese mycologists, or scientists who study fungi, will soon benefit from the return of thousands of fungi specimens (above, Exobasidium sawadae on cinnamon berries) kept at Cornell University since the 1930s.

Experts at the university's Plant Pathology Herbarium are now working with a Chinese delegation to repatriate the specimens, which were safeguarded at the herbarium during the outbreak of World War II. The fungi will be sent back to China sometime in 2010.