Royall T. Moore

Royall Tyler Moore (October 11, 1930 – August 17, 2014) was an American-born mycologist and mycology professor.

Royall Tyler Moore
Born	(1930-10-11)October 11, 1930 Varna, New York, U.S.
Died	August 17, 2014(2014-08-17) (aged 83) Coleraine, Northern Ireland
Alma mater	Michigan State College Harvard University
Known for	New species Fungal diversity and development
Awards	Benefactor's Medal, British Mycological Society Doctor of Science
Scientific career
Fields	Mycology
Doctoral advisor	Ivan Mackenzie Lamb
Author abbrev. (botany)	R.T. Moore

Education and work edit

He received his doctorate from the Harvard University in 1959, writing his dissertation on the fungal genus Sporidesmium. Later, he worked at Cornell University, the University of California, Berkeley, and North Carolina State University on the classification and development of fungi before joining the faculty at Ulster University at Coleraine. Moore bequeathed almost $500,000 to Cornell University to promote the study of mycology.^[1]

The standard author abbreviation R.T. Moore is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

Moore, RT. 1959. The Sporidesmium complex. Thesis (Ph. D.), Dept. of Biology, Harvard University.
Moore, RT. 1959. The genus Berkleasmium. Mycologia 51(5): 734–739.
Moore, RT. 1960. Fine Structure of Mycota 2. Demonstration of the haustoria of lichens. Mycologia 52(5): 805–807.
Moore, RT. 1963. Fine Structure of Mycota XI. Occurrence of the golgi dictyosome in the heterobasidiomycete Puccinia podophylli. Journal of Bacteriology 86(4): 866-871.
Moore, RT. 1989. Alicean taxonomy–small characters made large. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 99(1): 59–79.
Moore, RT. 1992. The genus Bauhinus gen. nov.: for species of Ustilago on dicot hosts. Mycotaxon 45: 97–100.

^ Carberry, John (17 June 2015). "Royall Moore's passion for fungi funds students". Cornell Chronicle. Cornell University. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
^ International Plant Names Index. R.T. Moore.