PERSOONIAL Reflections

You are free to share-to copy, distribute and transmit the work, under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Non-commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No derivative works: You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work, which can be found at The year 2009 represents the 50th anniversary of Persoonia as an international journal of mycology. Since 2008, Persoonia is a full-colour, Open Access journal, and from 2009 onwards, will also appear in PubMed, which we believe will give our authors even more exposure than that presently achieved via the two independent online websites, www.IngentaConnect.com, and www.persoonia.org. The enclosed free poster depicts the 50 most beautiful fungi published throughout the year. We hope that the poster acts as further encouragement for students and mycologists to describe and help protect our planet's fungal biodiversity. As 2010 is the international year of biodiversity, we urge you to prominently display this poster, and help distribute the message that without fungi as basal link in the food chain, there will be no biodiversity at all. The present book forms part of the series depicting the Biodiversity of Poland. To date four published volumes of the series have been devoted to fungi, namely Ba-sidiomycetes, Ascomycetes, lichens and lichenicolous fungi, and slime moulds. The present book covers the as well as anamorphic fungi which belong mostly to the Asco-mycota (micromycetes), with the latter category representing the larger part of the book. In general the classification follows the latest scheme, with the various fungal orders linked to different authors. Taxa are well documented, and supported by the substrate on which they occur, numerous references, and in many cases nomenclatural synonymies and other relevant data. This represents an impressive book, which is far more than just a checklist of fungal taxa and their hosts, and will make a valuable contribution to all mycological libraries. PW Crous Gryzenhout M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ. 2009. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and ecology of bark-inhabiting and tree-pathogenic fungi in the Cryphonectriaceae. The Cryphonectriaceae include some of the most important tree pathogens in the world. Over the years I have personally helped collect populations …