The topic Neurospora is discussed in the following articles:


  • TITLE: Ascomycota (phylum of fungi)
    Neurospora, a genus of widespread species, produces bakery mold, or red bread mold. It has been used extensively in genetic and biochemical investigations. Xylaria contains about 100 species of cosmopolitan fungi. X. polymorpha produces a club-shaped or fingerlike fruiting body (stroma) resembling burned wood and common on decaying wood or injured trees.

research by Dodge

  • TITLE: Bernard Ogilvie Dodge (American botanist)
    ...his formal education, Dodge was over 40 when his first paper on mycology was published, his last work appeared when he was 85, and he was already 55 when his major work on the genetics of Neurospora began. In 1920 he had discovered heterothallism in the ascomycetes (sac fungi), first in Ascobolus and then in Neurospora. His early papers demonstrated the excellent...