Raffaele Ciferri (1897 - 1964)
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Biography
Selected publications
Biography
studied agricultural management at the University of Bologna
1925 manned an agricultural experiment station in Santiago de los Caballeros, in South America
1932 returns to Italy, appointed director of the Italian Cryptogamic Laboratory in Pavia
1936 appointed professor of botany at the Academy for Agriculture and Forestry in Florence
1942 appointed professor of botany at the University of Pavia
Well, I was surprised when I started finding so many publications by Ciferri (who I hadn't heard of at the time), but The Dictionary of the Fungi says that he has more than a thousand [I don't want to even start doing the math on how many that is per year], so obviously I've only got the tip of the iceberg here. He went on collecting expeditions to Cuba and the Dominican Republic and published quite a bit on the fungi he found there, publishing also on yeasts, smuts, and fungal pathogens of humans.
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Selected Publications
Raffaele Ciferri (1922) "Notae mycologicae et phytopathologicae" in Annales Mycologici (Annals of Mycology) 20:1 pp. 34 - 53Species of Phyllosticta on Acer and Cydonia
Raffaele Ciferri (1924) "Seconda contribuzione allo studio degli Ustilaginales" (Second contribution to the study of the Ustilaginales) in Atti dell' Istituto Botanico della Reale Universita di Pavia (Acts of the Botanical Institute of Reale University in Pavia) 3rd series, 1:2 pp. 77 - 97Describes several species of Entyloma and Tubercinia
Raffaele Ciferri (1924) "Prima contribuzione allo studio degli "Ustilaginales"" (First contribution to the study of the Ustilaginales) in Bolletino della Società Botanica Italiana (Bulletin of the Italian Botanical Society) 2 pp. 46 - 59Discusses 22 species of Tolyposporium, Entyloma, and Melanotaenium
Raffaele Ciferri & Piero Redaelli (1925) "Monographia delle Torulopsidaceae a pigmento rosso" (Monograph of the Torulopsidaceae that are colored red) in Atti dell' Istituto Botanico della Reale Universita di Pavia (Acts of the Botanical Institute of Reale University in Pavia) 3rd series, 2 pp. 147 - 303
Raffaele Ciferri (1925) "Studi sulle Torulopsidaceae -- sul nomi generici di Torula, Eutorula, Torulopsis, Cryptococcus, e sul nome di gruppo Torulaceae" (Study of the Torulopsidaceae -- on the names of the genera Torula, Eutorula, Torulopsis, Cryptococcus, and on the name of the group) in Atti dell' Istituto Botanico della Reale Universita di Pavia (Acts of the Botanical Institute of Reale University in Pavia) 3rd series, 2 pp. 129 - 142
Raffaele Ciferri (1925) "Terza contribuzione allo studio degli Ustilaginales. Alcuni micromiceti della flora Spanola e Svizzera" (Third contribution to the study of the Ustilaginales. Other micromycetes from Spain and Switzerland) in Atti dell' Istituto Botanico della Reale Universita di Pavia (Acts of the Botanical Institute of Reale University in Pavia) 2 pp. 7 - 14Still more species of Entyloma, plus a few other genera
Raffaele Ciferri (1928) "Quarta contribuzione allo studio degli Ustilaginales" (Fourth contribution to the study of the Ustilaginales) in Annales Mycologici (Annals of Mycology) 26:1 pp. 1 - 68Includes a list of the known species of Entyloma
Raffaele Ciferri & Piero Redaelli (1929) "Studies on the Torulopsidaceae" in Annales Mycologici (Annals of Mycology) 27 pp. 243 - 295
F. D. Kern, Raffaele Ciferri & H. W. Thurston, Jr. (1933) "The rust-flora of the Dominican Republic" in Annales Mycologici (Annals of Mycology) 31:1 pp. 1 - 40All species known to occur in the Dominican Republic; with host index
Raffaele Ciferri (1934) "A few interesting North American smuts: I. Revision of the smuts on Bouteloua spp." in Transactions of the British Mycological Society 18:4 pp. 257 - 262
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