Systematic mycology
- Taxonomy of rust fungi (Uredinales) of the world with a regional focus on the neotropics and southern Africa.
- Imaging of microfungi of the Zurich Herbaria (Z+ZT)
Recent Publications
- (2647-2651) Proposals to conserve the names Venturia acerina against Cladosporium humile; Venturia borealis against Torula maculicola; Venturia carpophila against Fusicladium amygdali and Cladosporium americanum; Sphaerella inaequalis (Venturia inaequalis) against Spilocaea pomi, Fumago mall, Actinonema crataegi, Cladosporium dendriticum, Asteroma mali, and Scolicotrichum venosum; and Venturia pyrina against Helminthosporium pyrorum, Fusicladium virescens, F-fuscescens, Cladosporium polymorphum and Passalora pomi (Ascomycota: Dothideomycetes)
Rossman, A; Castlebury, L; Aguirre-Hudson, B; Berndt, R; Edwards, J
TAXON, 67 (6):1209-1211; 10.12705/676.20 DEC 2018 - A taxonomic revision of the genus Puccinia on Lycieae, a tribe of Solanaceae
Otalora, MAG; Berndt, R
MYCOLOGIA, 110 (4):692-709; 10.1080/00275514.2018.1478538 2018 - Competing sexual and asexual generic names in Pucciniomycotina and Ustilaginomycotina (Basidiomycota) and recommendations for use
Aime, M. Catherine; Castlebury, Lisa A.; Abbasi, Mehrdad; Begerow, Dominik; Berndt, Reinhard; Kirschner, Roland; Marvanova, L; Ono, Y; Padamsee, M; Scholler, M; Thines, M; Rossman, AY
IMA FUNGUS 9(1): 75-89 https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2018.09.01.06 JUN 2018 - Phragmidium punjabense, a new species of rust fungus on Rosa brunonii in the outer Himalayan ranges of Murree, Pakistan
Ali, Barkat; Sohail, Younas; Mumtaz, Abdul Samad; et al.
NOVA HEDWIGIA, 105 (3-4): 385-396 2017 - Studies of Cionothrix (Uredinales): emendation, telial morphology and description of a new species
Berndt, Reinhard
NOVA HEDWIGIA, 105 (3-4): 511-518 2017 - Rhizoglomus, a new genus of the Glomeraceae
Sieverding, Ewald; da Silva, Gladstone Alves; Berndt, Reinhard; et al.
MYCOTAXON 129(2): 373-386 10.5248/129.373 OCT-DEC 2014 - Revision of the rust genus Uromyces on Cucurbitaceae
Berndt, Reinhard
MYCOLOGIA, 105 (3): 760-780 MAY-JUN 2013
PD Dr. Reinhard Berndt
ETH Zurich
Institute of Integrative Biology
8092 Zurich
Tel: +41 (0)44 632 61 13
Publications
Research topics
- Rust fungi of the neotropics and southern Africa
- Taxonomy of rust fungi of the world
- Biodiversity of European rust fungi
Interdisciplinary
- Cooperation with rust taxonomists in South America (mainly Brazil), South Africa, Australia and Asia (Japan, India, Pakistan)
- Herbarium services (Zurich Herbaria): Loans of specimens, deposition of vouchers