This issue of Mycological Research News features : Fungi from coral reefs : a commentary. An obituary of Meinhard M. Moser (1924–2002), doyen of European agaricologists and a Centenary Fellow of the British Mycological Society, is also presented. Molecular papers in this part include the characterization of an a-L-arabinofuranosidase gene in Penicillium, the proteomomics of development in a Phy...