Yasuhiko Asahina (1881 - 1975)
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Biography
Sources
Selected publications
Biography
1905 graduates from the University of Tokyo with a degree in biochemistry, pharmacy, and Lichenology
1933 founds the Journal of Japanese Botany
Asahina worked on the lichens of Japan, with a special emphasis on their biochemistry and chemical testing as a way of identifying them.
Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
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Selected Publications
Yasuhiko Asahina (1950) Lichens of Japan: Part 1: Cladonia
Yasuhiko Asahina (1952) Lichens of Japan: part 2: Parmelia
Yasuhiko Asahina & Shoji Shibata (1954) Chemistry of lichen substances
Yasuhiko Asahina (1956) Lichens of Japan: Part 3: Usnea
Yasuhiko Asahina (1971) Atlas of Japanese Cladoniae
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